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Widow
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English widewe, from Old English wuduwe; akin to Old High German wituwa ~, Latin vidua, Sanskrit vidhava, Latin -videre to separate Date: before 12th century 1. a. a woman who has lost her husband by death and usually has not remarried b. grass ~ 2 c. a woman whose husband leaves her alone frequently or for long periods to engage in a usually specified activity a golf ~ 2. an extra hand or part of a hand of cards dealt face down and usually placed at the disposal of the highest bidder 3. a single usually short last line (as of a paragraph) separated from its related text and appearing at the top of a printed page or column II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. to cause to become a ~ or ~er 2. obsolete to survive as the ~ of 3. to deprive of something greatly valued or needed ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again. 2 a woman whose husband is often away on a specified activity (golf widow). 3 extra cards dealt separately and taken by the highest bidder. 4 Printing the short last line of a paragraph at the top of a page or column. --v.tr. 1 make into a widow or widower. 2 (as widowed adj.) bereft by the death of a spouse (my widowed mother). 3 (foll. by of) deprive of. Phrases and idioms widow-bird a whydah. widow's cruse an apparently small supply that proves or seems inexhaustible (see 1 Kgs. 17:10-16). widow's mite a small money contribution (see Mark 12:42). widow's peak a V-shaped growth of hair towards the centre of the forehead. widow's weeds see WEEDS. Etymology: OE widewe, rel. to OHG wituwa, Skr. vidh{aacute}va, L viduus bereft, widowed, Gk eitheos unmarried man ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. вдова to be a widow —- вдовствовать to become a widow —- овдоветь 2. разг. что-л. не имеющее пары, лишнее 3. (the widow) "вдова Клико", шампанское 4. карт. прикуп 5. сл. виселица Id: a widow bewitched —- диал. брошенная или разведенная жена; соломенная вдова Id: the widow's mite —- библ. лепта вдовицы Id: the widow's cruse —- библ. кадка вдовы (из Сарепты Сидонской); неисчерпаемый запас Id: widow's lock —- вихор, непослушный локон (примета, якобы предвещающая раннее вдовство) Id: widow's peak —- волосы, растущие треугольным выступом на лбу (примета, якобы предвещающая раннее вдовство) Id: widow's walk —- "вдовья дорожка", огражденная платформа на крыше прибрежного дома (где жены моряков ожидали своих мужей) 6. книж. делать вдовой или редк. вдовцом she was widowed by the war —- война отняла у нее мужа 7. обездолить 8. (of) отнимать, лишать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun вдова - widows mite - widows cruse 2. v. 1) делать вдовой, вдовцом 2) poet. лишать, отнимать; обездолить ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again (Mr Castle's widow, Anne, described the sentence as `obscene'.) 2 football widow/golf etc widow humorous a woman whose husband spends all his free time watching football, playing golf etc ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. widewe, widuwe, from P.Gmc. *widewo, from PIE *widhewo, from *weidh- "separate." Meaning "short line of type" (especially at the top of a column) is 1904 print shop slang. Widower is first attested c.1378. Widow's peak is from the belief that hair growing to a point on the forehead is an omen of early widowhood, suggestive of the "peak" of a widow's hood. Widow maker "anything lethally dangerous" first recorded 1945, originally among loggers, in reference to dead trees, etc. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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