Usually means: Marriage to deceased brother's wife.
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  1. levirate: Merriam-Webster
  2. levirate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. levirate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. levirate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. levirate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Levirate, levirate: Wordnik
  7. levirate: Wiktionary
  8. levirate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. levirate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Levirate, levirate: Dictionary.com
  11. Levirate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. levirate: Rhymezone
  13. levirate: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  14. Levirate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. levirate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. levirate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. levirate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. levirate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. levirate: Legal dictionary
  2. levirate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. levirate: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (levirate)

adjective:  Having to do with one's husband's brother.
noun:  (countable) A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.
noun:  (anthropology) The institution of levirate marriage.

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