widow

woman whose spouse has died
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widow

Summary

widow ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (483 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • widow's GND ID is recorded as 4066678-5[2].
  • widow's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85146612[3].
  • widow's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11953342c[4].
  • widow's subclass of is recorded as woman[5].
  • widow's subclass of is recorded as widowed person[6].
  • widow's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00567632[7].
  • widow's DOI is recorded as 10.1163/1875-3922_Q3_EQSIM_00459[8].
  • widow's Commons category is recorded as Widows[9].
  • widow's patron saint is recorded as Saint Rita of Cascia[10].
  • widow's patron saint is recorded as Pharaildis[11].
  • widow's patron saint is recorded as Saint Ludmila of Bohemia[12].
  • widow's patron saint is recorded as Elizabeth Ann Seton[13].
  • widow's opposite of is recorded as widower[14].
  • widow's opposite of is recorded as wife[15].
  • widow's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 27093[16].
  • widow's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph126999[17].
  • widow's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300263464[18].
  • widow's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 306.883[19].
  • widow's Iconclass notation is recorded as 42D42[20].
  • widow's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[21].
  • widow's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[22].
  • widow's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • widow's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24].
  • widow's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • widow's Jewish Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 10856[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for widow include Lot's Wife[27], a volcanic island[28], in Japan[29].

Why It Matters

widow ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (483 views/month).[1] widow has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] widow is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for widow include Lot's Wife[27], a volcanic island[28], in Japan[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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