dower
pronunciation
How to pronounce dower in British English:
UK ['daʊə]
How to pronounce dower in American English:
US ['daʊə]
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- Noun:
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
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- Verb:
- furnish with an endowment
Word Origin
- dower (n.)
- late 13c., from Old French doaire "dower, dowry, gift" (see dowry).
Example
- 1. When the fighting is finished , history is written , inevitably by those in power , observes mr dower .
- 2. The dower of the woman is very much .
- 3. Try running those lights off the main dower supply .
- 4. For a solution , mr dower looks to the 20th-century views of e. h. norman , a japan expert and marxist historian .
- 5. Mr dower is particularly interested in japan 's sanitisation of its military past , but also the way history in general is often a tool used by the powerful .