See dower in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches:",
"text": "Man in his primeval dower arrayed.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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"enpr": "dauʹ-ər"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaʊ.əɹ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ)]",
"tags": [
"UK"
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},
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"ipa": "[ˈdaw.ɚ]",
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},
{
"homophone": "dour (for some speakers)"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊ.ə(ɹ)"
}
],
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{
"word": "bride price"
},
{
"word": "bride token"
},
{
"word": "bridewealth"
},
{
"word": "mahr"
},
{
"word": "reverse dowry"
}
],
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lijftocht"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "leeftocht"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"word": "lesken osuus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dot"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Leibzucht"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Leibgedinge"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "part of deceased's property",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "legittima"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"word": "trederann"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zestra",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "зестра"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "věno"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "weduwgift"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"word": "huomenlahja"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "douaire"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "dote"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Wittum"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tionscra"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tochra"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dotario"
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"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "property given to wife at marriage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "cynhysgaeth"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "gift",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "nadání"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "gift",
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"word": "talent"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "gift",
"tags": [
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"word": "dar"
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"enm:Marriage"
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{
"word": "undowered"
}
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"form": "dowers",
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"present",
"singular",
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},
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"form": "dowering",
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"ref": "1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:",
"text": "He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth.",
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}
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"To give a dower or dowry to."
],
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"(transitive) To give a dower or dowry to."
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"ref": "1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
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"To endow."
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],
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"(transitive) To endow."
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]
}
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"sounds": [
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"enpr": "dauʹ-ər"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaʊ.əɹ/"
},
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"ipa": "[ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ)]",
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"ipa": "[ˈdaw.ɚ]",
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},
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],
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}
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