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widow is a woman whose husband has died; a widower is a man whose wife has died.
Widow, The Widow, Widow's, or Widower may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
TV and film
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''The Widow'' (1939 film), an Italian drama film
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''The Widow'' (1955 film), an Italian romantic drama film
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''The Widow'' (TV series), a British television drama released on Amazon Prime in 2019
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''Widows'' (TV series), a British television drama written by Lynda La Plante, aired in 1983 and 1985
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''Widows'' (2011 film), an Argentine comedy-drama film
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''Widows'' (2018 film), an English-language heist film directed by Steve McQueen, adapted from the British TV series
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Widow (1976 film), an American TV film
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''The Widower'' (TV series), a 2014 British miniseries
Plays
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''The Widow'' (play), a 17th-century play
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''Widows'' (play), a theatre play with Puerto Rican actor
Luis Antonio Ramos
Music
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"The Widow" (song), a 2005 song by The Mars Volta
Other uses
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Widów (disambiguation) Widów may refer to the following places:
*Widów, Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
*Widów, Silesian Voivodeship
Widów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudziniec, within Gliwice County, Silesian Voivodeship, in ...
, several places in Poland
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Widow (typesetting)
In typesetting, widows and orphans are lines of text that dangle at the beginning and at the end of a block of text, either at the head or at the foot of a page or of a column of text.
Definitions
;Widow: A paragraph-ending line that falls ...
, a final line of a paragraph appearing separately at the top of a page or column
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Widow skimmer
The widow skimmer (''Libellula luctuosa'') is one of the group of dragonflies known as king skimmers. The nymphs live in the water, molting and growing until they are ready to emerge from the water and then molting a final time to reveal their wi ...
, a dragonfly sometimes known simply as Widow
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Widow's succession, a woman who replaces or stands in for her husband in politics
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Widow's walk, a rooftop platform
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Widow's weeds (clothing)
Mourning is the expression of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, causing grief, occurring as a result of someone's death, specifically someone who was loved although loss from death is not exclusively ...
, mourning clothes
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Widow Von'Du, American drag queen
See also
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Black widow (disambiguation)
Black widow may refer to:
Spiders
* Black widow spider, a common name for some species of spiders in the genus ''Latrodectus''
American species
* ''Latrodectus apicalis'', the Galapagos black widow
* ''Latrodectus curacaviensis'', the South Amer ...
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White widow (disambiguation) White Widow may refer to:
* Samantha Lewthwaite (born 1983), terrorist suspect and widow of 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay
* Sally-Anne Jones
Sally-Anne Frances Jones (17 November 1968 – June 2017) was a British terrorist, Islamist, ...
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The Merry Widow (disambiguation) '' The Merry Widow'' is an operetta by Franz Lehár.
The Merry Widow may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Adaptations of Lehár's operetta
Ballet
* ''The Merry Widow'' (ballet), an adaptation of the operetta
Films
* ''The Merry Wi ...
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Whydah Gally'', a recovered pirate galleon
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Widow's Peak (disambiguation)
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