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dowry | undefined |

As a noun 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 marriagegary ferraro & susan andreatta, cultural anthropology , 8th edn (belmont, cal: wadsworth, 2010), 223.

As a verb dowry

is to bestow a dowry upon.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

dowry

English

(wikipedia dowry)

Noun

(dowries)
  • 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.

    • Antonyms

    * dower * bride price

    Hypernyms

    * marriage portion

    Related terms

    * reverse dowry * (l) * (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To bestow a dowry upon.
  • * 1999 , Judith Everard, ?Michael C. E. Jones, Charters Duchess Constance Br , Page xvi
  • * 2013 Noreen Giffney, ?Margrit Shildrick, Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference , Page 62
  • * 1911 , Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London , Page 108
  • * 1976 , Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction , Page 19

    • See also

    * glory box * hope chest * trousseau

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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined