Word.ws English Dictionary

reverse-dowry

reverse-dowry is the alternative form of reverse dowry.

Meaning of reverse dowry

Noun

reverse dowry (plural reverse dowries)

  1. A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures.
    • This bride-gift, a kind of reverse dowry, indicates that grooms had to compete for relatively few brides.1978, Carol Meyers, “The Roots of Restriction: Women in Early Israel”, in The Biblical Archaeologist, volume 41, number 3, page 98
    Synonyms:
    bride price, dower, dowry
    Antonyms:
    dowry

Forms of reverse-dowry

pluralreverse-dowries

Questions about reverse-dowry

What is reverse-dowry the alternative form of?
Reverse-dowry is the alternative form of reverse dowry.

Words near reverse-dowry in the dictionary

  1. reverse-commute
  2. reverse-commuted
  3. reverse-commutes
  4. reverse-commuting
  5. reverse-dowries
  6. reverse-dowry
  7. reverse-engineer
  8. reverse-engineered
  9. reverse-engineering
  10. reverse-engineers
  11. reverse-pickpocket

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reverse-dowry (page history and authors); reverse dowry (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: “reverse-dowry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reverse-dowry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.