widow

C1 CET-4 Oxf 5000 大学 FREQ #3739 ★★☆☆☆

n. 寡妇, 孀妇 vt. 使成寡妇

发音

UK /ˈwɪd.əʊ/
US /ˈwɪd.oʊ/

词形变化

widows 复数 widows widowed widowing widows 三单 widowing 现在分词 widowed 过去式 widowed 过去分词

别名

widder widdow widdy

教材释义与例句

名词

寡妇；孀妇

动词

使成寡妇

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    A person whose spouse is absent:

    A person who has lost a spouse and hasn't remarried:

    A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.

  2. 2.

    A person whose spouse is absent:

    A person who has lost a spouse and hasn't remarried:

    Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).

    寡妇

    寡母婆

    守寡嫲

    孤孀

  3. 3.

    A person whose spouse is absent:

    A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.

    幽默 非正式 引申义

    My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.

  4. 4.

    An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.

    游戏
  5. 5.

    A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.

    媒体 印刷
  6. 6.

    Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

v.
  1. 1.

    To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To strip of anything valued.

    比喻 及物
  3. 3.

    To endow with a widow's right.

    废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To be widow to.

    废旧 及物

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

woman

下位词 3

dowager queen dowager war widow
动词

上位词 2

leave leave behind

相关短语

widow bird 非洲凤凰雀; 寡妇鸟 widow birds widow maker widow bewitched widow monkey widow makers widow monkeys widow foreclosure widow foreclosures widow inheritance widow cleansing widow finch widow finches widow-maker black widow knee slide

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ Proto-West Germanic *widuwā Old English widuwe Middle English widwe English widow PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English widow, from Old English widuwe (“widow”), from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā (“widow”), from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ (“widow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”), possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu. Cognates Cognate with Scots weedae, wedow, widdow (“widow”), Cimbrian bittaba (“widow”), Dutch weduwe, weeuw (“widow”), German Witwe (“widow”), Vilamovian wytwa (“widow”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō, “widow”), Old Irish fedb (“widow”), Welsh gweddw (“widow”), Asturian and Spanish viuda (“widow”), Aragonese and Latin vidua (“widow”), Catalan vídua (“widow”), French veuve (“widow”), Galician and Portuguese viúva (“widow”), Italian vedova (“widow”), Romanian văduvă (“widow”), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos, “bachelor”), Albanian ve (“widow, widower”), Belarusian удава́ (udavá, “widow”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene vdova (“widow”), Polish gdowa, wdowa (“widow”), Russian and Ukrainian вдова́ (vdová, “widow”), Serbo-Croatian udova, у̀дова (“widow”), Central Kurdish بێوە (bêwe, “widow”), Ossetian идӕдз (idæʒ, “widowed”), Persian بیوه (bive, bêva, “widow”), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā, “widow”).

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