0 a woman whose husband is dead -- vdova
My brother’s widow has married again.
1 to cause to become a widow or widower -- ovdovět
She/He was widowed in 1943.
Elderly widows (29%) were most exposed to inadequate care because of their low status in their families and among their spouse's kin.
While daughters and married women rarely held or managed landed property on their own, the situation with regard to widows was very different.
Among women, widows and the divorced and separated were more likely than mar ried women to reject an occupational for a personal pension.
Two men who had become homeless after being widowed bought recipe books and learned to cook for the first time in their lives.
Of the unmarried women, only 18.2% were never-married, whereas (unlike any of the men) 15.2% were widowed and 7.5% were divorced.
One-half were married and the remainder were single, widowed, separated or divorced.
Racial differences in the determinants of the living arrangements of widowed and divorced elderly women.
Approximately one-half of the sample (54.2 %) were currently married, 38.0 per cent widowed and 7.8 per cent divorced, separated or never-married.