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/ˈdaʊəɹi/ · noun
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage..
The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)
But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.
1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19
Use dowry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dowry means Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage..
Common synonyms include bride price, reverse dowry, dower, see others at bride price.
Possible antonyms include bride price, reverse dowry, dower, see others at bride price.
The family of the groom makes sure the new couple has a house to live in and land to cultivate; they will also pay for the dowry (crucial, for without dowry the new father has no rights over his children; Trouwborst 1962: 136ff.)
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