also: ういどー · うぃどう · ういどう
A woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried. This is a direct loanword from English, used in contexts such as fashion, social status, or legal terminology. The native Japanese term is 未亡人 (みぼうじん), which is more formal and traditional.
She became a widow at a young age.
その雑誌にはウィドー向けのファッション特集があった。
The magazine had a fashion feature for widows.
Alternate katakana spelling; less common than ウィドー.
Rare variant; the long vowel is sometimes written as ウ instead of ー.
Rare variant combining the alternate initial vowel and final ウ.
Borrowed from English 'widow'.