dowry
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.Gary Ferraro & Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology, 8th edn. (Belmont, Cal: Wadsworth, 2010), 223.
Other meanings
Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family.
Inheritance from a deceased husband to his widow.
Synonyms
- portion
Related words
- antidowry
- dowryless
- dowry death
- reverse dowry
Word history
From Latin "dōs".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “dowry” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.