| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun dowry.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (dowry) | 1. Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage.[Wordnet]. 2. A gift; endowment.[Websters]. 3. The money, goods, or estate, which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; a bride's portion on her marriage.[Websters]. 4. A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal.[Websters]. | |
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Date "DOWRIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dowry
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The money, goods or estate which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; the portion given with a wife.. | 2: [Noun] The reward paid for a wife.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Bible | 1: Dowry (mohar; i.e., price paid for a wife, Gen. 34:12; Ex. 22:17; 1 Sam. 18:25), a nuptial present; some gift, as a sum of money, which the bridegroom offers to the father of his bride as a satisfaction before he can receive her. Jacob had no dowry to give for his wife, but he gave his services (Gen. 29:18; 30:20; 34:12). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | 2: See Marriage. (references) | |
| Dream Interpretation | To dream that you fail to receive a dowry, signifies penury and a cold world to depend on for a living. If you receive it, your expectations for the day will be fulfilled. The opposite may be expected if the dream is superinduced by the previous action of the waking mind. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Geography | Dowry is geographically located in Ireland. Its features include a mountain (an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more). Its geographic coordinates are 53.207778 degrees North latitude and 6.451944 degrees West longitude. (references) | ||
| Law | 1: A special form of endowment for daughters, which comprises the furnishings of a household or the cash amount necessary to purchase them. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: DOWRY. Formerly applied to mean that which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; this is now called a portion. This word is sometimes confounded with dower. Vide Co. Litt. 31; Civ. Code of Lo. art. 2317; Dig. 23, 3, 76; Code, 5, 12, 20. (references) | |
| Wikipedic | A dowry (also known as trousseau) is a gift of money or valuables given by the bride's family to that of the groom to permit their marriage. In societies where payment of dowry is common, unmarried women are seen to attract stigma and tarnish the household's reputation, so it is in the bride's family's interest to marry off their daughter as soon as she is eligible. In some areas where this is practiced, the size of the necessary dowry is directly proportional to the groom's social status, thus making it virtually impossible for lower class women to marry into upper class families. In some cases where a woman's family is too poor to afford any dowry whatsoever, she is either simply forbidden from ever marrying, or at most becomes a concubine to a richer man who can afford to support a large household. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] Property or payment brought by a wife or her family to a husband at the time of marriage. (In some cultures, it is the husband who pays the dowry to the wife's family.). (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: dowry
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dowry law in India | Payment of a dowry, gift — often financial, has a long history in many parts of the world. In India, the payment of a dowry was prohibited in 1961 under Indian civil law. This instrument is supported by several sections of the Indian Penal Code. The application of some of these code has become controversial. (references) | ||
| Dowry town | Dowry town (Věnné město in Czech) is name for town that has been devoted by Bohemian king to his wife - the queen consort. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: dowry
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dowry assurance | Law | Assurance to provide a capital sum or annuity on marriage for children. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: dowry | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Dowry | 20 | Agnieszka's Dowry | 10 | |
| Dowry Square | 16 | Dowry | 20 | |
| Dowry law in India | 14 | Dowry death | 6 | |
| Agnieszka's Dowry | 10 | Dowry law in India | 14 | |
| The Fatal Dowry | 9 | Dowry Square | 16 | |
| Dowry death | 6 | Dowry town | 5 | |
| Dowry town | 5 | The Fatal Dowry | 9 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
