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widowed

widowed adjective: whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower. Also the simple past and past participle of widow.

Adjective

widowed (not comparable)

  1. Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.
    • I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed bride.1959, Don McLean, American Pie (song)

Also used as

widowed is also the simple past and past participle of widow.

widowed meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada

widowed in Tamil

விதவையானார், விதவையானவர்

widowed in Telugu

వితంతువైన

widowed in Kannada

ವಿಧವೆಯಾದಳು

Words formed from widowed

Questions about widowed

What does widowed mean?
Widowed means whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.
What is widowed in Tamil?
Widowed in Tamil is விதவையானார், விதவையானவர். See Widowed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is widowed?
Widowed is an adjective.

Words near widowed in the dictionary

  1. widow-makers
  2. widow-wail
  3. widowbird
  4. widowbirds
  5. widowdom
  6. widowed
  7. widower
  8. widowered
  9. widowerhood
  10. widowerhoods
  11. widowers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widowed (page history and authors); widowed (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); widowed (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); widowed (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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