dowry

Meaning of dowry

noun
  1. an amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.
    Elizabeth's dowry was to be £45,000 in diamonds

Middle English (denoting a widow's life interest in her husband's estate): from Anglo-Norman French dowarie, from medieval Latin dotarium (see dower).

Information about dowry

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of dowry is: dowries.
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Hyphenation of dowry

dowry

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dowry is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

dowry synonyms

Meaning dowery:

dowery, dower, portion

Meaning a dowry:

tocher

Meaning a small round mark or spot:

dot

Translation of dowry

Anagrams of dowry

rowdy, wordy

Words that rhyme with dowry

cowry, chowry, Lowry, lowry, advowry, avowry

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