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語源

From 中期英語 dowarye, dowerie, from Anglo-Norman dowarie, douarie, from Old French douaire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs. Doublet of dower.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈdaʊəɹi/, /ˈdaʊɹi/
• 韻: -aʊəɹi, -aʊɹi

名詞

dowry (countable and uncountable, plural dowries)

1. Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.

   Antonyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower; see others at bride price

   Hypernyms: marriage-portion < price, fee, gift

2. (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family.

   Synonyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower; see others at bride price

   Hypernyms: marriage-portion < price, fee, gift

   Hyponym: lobola

   • 2009, Peter Uvin, Life after Violence: A People's Story of Burundi, page 125:

     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.)

3. (obsolete) Inheritance from a deceased husband to his widow.

   Synonym: dower

4. A natural gift or talent.
5. (informal) A large amount.
   • 1928, E. M. Forster, The Eternal Moment:

     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.

派生語

関連する語

• dowager
• endow

参照

• (large amount): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

動詞

dowry (third-person singular simple present dowries, present participle dowrying, simple past and past participle dowried)

1. To bestow a dowry upon.
   • 1999, Judith Everard, Michael C. E. Jones, Charters Duchess Constance Br, page xvi:
   • 2013, Noreen Giffney, Margrit Shildrick, Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference, page 62:
   • 1911, Aida Rodman De Milt, Ways and Days Out of London, page 108:

     1976, Graham Anderson, Studies in Lucian's Comic Fiction, Page 19

参考

• glory box
• hope chest
• trousseau

参照

アナグラム

• rowdy, wordy