reverse dowry
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride, in some cultures.
Example Sentences
- "This bride-gift, a kind of reverse dowry, indicates that grooms had to compete for relatively few brides."
- "Doug's mother, Lynn Sakowitz Wyatt, reveals that before her father, Bernard, would allow her to marry Coastal Corp. chairman Oscar Wyatt, he negotiated a reverse dowry giving him $1 million in corporate stock."