Usually means: Payment from bride's family traditionally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dowry: Merriam-Webster
  2. dowry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dowry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dowry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dowry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dowry, dowry: Wordnik
  7. dowry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dowry: Wiktionary
  9. dowry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dowry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dowry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dowry: Dictionary.com
  13. dowry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dowry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dowry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dowry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dowry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dowry: Rhymezone
  19. Dowry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dowry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dowry: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dowry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dowry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dowry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dowry: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. dowry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dowry: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. dowry [also dowery]: Genealogy Glossary
  4. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dowry: Easton Bible
  2. Dowry: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dowry: Anthropological Terms
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dowry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dowry: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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