Dowry vs Inheritance - What's the difference?
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Payment, as property or money, of a bride’s inheritance by her 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.
To bestow a dowry upon.
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The passing of title to an estate upon death.
(lb) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
(lb) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
In object-oriented programming, the mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
As nouns the difference between dowry and inheritance
is that dowry is payment, as property or money, of a bride’s inheritance by her family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage while inheritance is the passing of title to an estate upon death.As a verb dowry
is to bestow a dowry upon.dowry
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(wikipedia dowry)Noun
(dowries)Antonyms
* dower * bride priceHypernyms
* marriage portionVerb
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