A woman whose spouse has died and has not remarried.

Informal: A wife often left alone by her partner's hobby or job.

Typography: A very short last line of a paragraph carried to a new page or column.

Cards: An extra face-down hand used by the highest bidder.

Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus, such as the black widow.

To make someone a widow or widower; to deprive of a spouse by death.

Literary: To strip or deprive someone of something valued.