Endow vs Dowry - What's the difference?
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To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
To bestow freely.
To be furnished with something naturally.
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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As verbs the difference between endow and dowry
is that endow is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution while dowry is to bestow a dowry upon.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.endow
English
Alternative forms
* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* endowmentAnagrams
* * * *dowry
English
(wikipedia dowry)Noun
(dowries)Antonyms
* dower * bride priceHypernyms
* marriage portionVerb
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