{
    "term": "widow",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She gets a widow’s pension."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["grieving", "elderly", "middle-aged"],
                "verb + widow": ["become", "leave", "marry"],
                "phrases": ["a widow’s pension"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɪdəʊ/",
                "audio": "wi/widow/widow__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈwɪdəʊ/",
                "audio": "wi/widow/widow__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’."
}