dowry
part of speech
noun (dowry, dowries)
meaning for a pupil
(old use) money, goods or land that a bride's family gave to her when she married tree →
sense in the lessons
in fairy tales a gift that goes with a princess or a girl when she is married
examples
- The king gave his daughter a rich dowry. tree →
- Her father promised a dowry of gold and cows. tree →
- In the old story the poor girl had no dowry. tree →
note
nothing for maths; a dowry is an amount of money, so in a sharing problem it is the total to be divided, not a count
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dowry» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.