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Dowery

🔄 Synonyms of "Dowery"

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Word	Definition
dowrynoun	Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
dowernoun	(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dowery"

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Word	Definition
dowrynoun	Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
dowernoun	(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
reverse-dowrynoun	Alternative form of reverse dowry. [A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures.]
reverse dowrynoun	A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures.
marriage-portionnoun	A dowry, either paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family, or by the groom's family to the bride or her family, at the time of marriage.
bride pricenoun	In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.
bridepricenoun	Alternative spelling of bride price. [In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.]
bride-pricenoun	Alternative spelling of bride price. [In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.]
dotationnoun	(literary, rare) The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.
portionnoun	An allocated amount.
presentationnoun	The act of presenting, or something presented.
dadneynoun	Alternative form of dadny. [(India, historical) An advance paid to a craftsman, a weaver, etc. by a trader in the goods produced.]
money dancenoun	A dance taking place at some weddings, where male guests pay to dance briefly with the bride, and sometimes female guests pay to dance with the groom.
pin-moneynoun	Alternative form of pin money. [(historical) An allowance of money given by a man to his wife or to other dependents for their personal, discretionary use.]
danegeldnoun	(history) A tax raised originally to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries to save a land from being ravaged, and later continued as a land tax.
were gildnoun	Alternative form of wergeld. [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.]
bountynoun	(countable) A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
penny-weddingnoun	Alternative form of penny wedding. [(Scotland, obsolete, idiomatic) A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.]
marchetnoun	Alternative form of merchet. [(obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.]
valuable considerationnoun	(law) An equivalent or compensation having value given for a thing purchased, such as money, marriage, services, etc.