A woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried. After her husband's passing, she became a widow and had to adjust to life on her own.
A last line of a paragraph that is separated from the rest of the paragraph and appears at the top of a page or column. The editor adjusted the layout to avoid having a widow at the top of the new page.
In certain card games, an extra hand dealt face-down from which players may draw cards or which may be played as an additional hand. In five-card draw, the dealer placed the widow in the center of the table for anyone to pick up.