WIDOW WOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does widow woman mean? 

• WIDOW WOMAN (noun)
  The noun WIDOW WOMAN has 1 sense:

1. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried

  Familiarity information: WIDOW WOMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDOW WOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

widow; widow woman

Hypernyms ("widow woman" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "widow woman"):

dowager (a widow holding property received from her deceased husband)

war widow (a woman whose husband has died in war)