The surviving member of a married couple after one or the other has died; a widow or widower
But I am not the penniless nonentity I was when we first met; I can offer an honorable if not a brilliant marriage; and at the very lowest I can provide my wife – my widow, my relict – with a decent competence, an assured future.
geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated