Usually means: Payment from bride's family traditionally.
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  1. dowries: Merriam-Webster
  2. dowries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dowries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dowries: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dowries, dowries: Wordnik
  6. dowries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dowries: Wiktionary
  8. Dowries, dowries: Dictionary.com
  9. dowries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Dowries: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Dowries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Dowries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. dowries: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dowries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dowries: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dowries: Encyclopedia

(Note: See dowry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dowry)

noun:  Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
noun:  (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
noun:  (obsolete) Dower.
noun:  A natural gift or talent.
noun:  (informal) A large amount.
verb:  To bestow a dowry upon.
▸ Also see dowry


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