Pronunciations (4)
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/ˈdaʊ.əɹ/
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[ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ)]
Pronunciation notes
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[ˈdaw.ɚ]
Pronunciation notes
- US
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ˈdaʊ.əɹ
Noun
The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- Antonyms
Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
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- Antonyms
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[…] how features are abroad, / I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty,— / The jewel in my dower,—I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you […]
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
Usage- Obsolete
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How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!
Man in his primeval dower arrayed.
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For though God had bestowed on her the rare dower of a fine mind, He had not added to it the much more common, though infinitely less precious gift, of a quick intellect.
Verb
To give a dower or dowry to.
Usage- Transitive
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He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth.
To endow.
Usage- Transitive
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It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws.
Noun
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
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a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
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Verb
furnish with an endowment
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When she got married, she got dowered