Widow
A person whose spouse has died — a partner left to continue the life that had been shared.
A widow in a dream is the dream's image of a partner left to continue the life that had been shared. The widow is not single in the ordinary sense; the widow is carrying the shape of a marriage that no longer has its second person. The dream brings the widow when something in your life — a friendship after the death of a friend, a working life after the loss of a collaborator, a public role after a personal bereavement — is being lived in the structure of a former partnership without the partner. A widow carrying the absence with steadiness is the dream affirming the honest continuation. A widow pretending nothing has changed, the second place at the table still set, is the dream noting that the absence is being managed by refusing to update the household to its new shape.