Widow

A widow was a woman who had lost her spouse to death. The male equivalent was a widower.

Brother Lassar recalled that Bessan made a million widows in one day. (TV: School Reunion)

Following the murder of his wife, Caroline Lake, Jackson Lake found himself a widower. (TV: The Next Doctor)

Jackie Tyler became a widow after her husband Pete was struck by a car. (TV: Father's Day) In another universe, Pete was a widower after Jackie was killed at a political protest. (AUDIO: The Flood) In another reality, Rosie Tyler became a widow after Jimmy Stone died in a sequence of events that Rose Tyler found disturbingly similar to the Tyler family's history in N-Space. (AUDIO: The Rogue Planet)