Word.ws English Dictionary

dowages

dowages is the plural of dowage.

Meaning of dowage

Noun

dowage (plural dowages)

  1. (obsolete) dower; dowry.
    • Leland, living at the time, is a good authority; and he describes Corsham as “a good uplandish toun, wher be ruines of an old maner place: and therby a park wont to be yn dowage to the Quenes of Englande.1875, Edward Hungerford Goddard, editor, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine: Volumes 15-16, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, page 325

Questions about dowages

What is dowages the plural of?
Dowages is the plural of dowage.

Words near dowages in the dictionary

  1. dowagerism
  2. dowagerlike
  3. dowagerly
  4. dowagers
  5. dowagers' humps
  6. dowages
  7. dowak
  8. dowar
  9. dowars
  10. Dowbiggin
  11. Dowbiggins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dowages (page history and authors); dowage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dowages.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dowages. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.