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Definition for: "Widow"

A married woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.

n. a woman whose husband died while she was married to him and who has not since remarried. A divorced woman whose ex-husband dies is not a widow, ex- cept for the purpose of certain Social Security benefits traceable to the ex-husband.

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