File:Gravestone_illustrating_use_of_the_word_"relict"_meaning_"widow".jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
AI overview
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried, while a widower is the male equivalent. These terms matter because they distinguish people whose marriages have ended through death from those who have divorced or are still married.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Patron saint
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
Show 5 more facts
- different from
- Widow
- Commons category
- Widows
- opposite of
- wife
- has characteristic
- widowhood
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
via Wikidata · CC0
Gallery (18)
Available in 58 languages
- Français
- 中文
- 日本語
- Русский
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Afrikaans
- Akan
- Albanian
- Assamese
- Aymara
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bangla
- Banjar
- Belarusian
- Breton
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
Show 39 more
- Czech
- dag
- Danish
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- Goan Konkani
- Greek
- Haitian Creole
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Javanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Kurdish
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Serbian (Latin)
- simple
- Sindhi
- Svenska
- Swahili
- Telugu
- Tiếng Việt
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Welsh
- Western Frisian
- Western Mari
- zh_yue
- فارسی
- ไทย
- 한국어
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0