dower
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Types & categories
- gift hypernym
Related & opposite
- dower derivation
Sense 2 verb
furnish with an endowment
When she got married, she got dowered
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- endowment derivation
- dower derivation
- dower derivation
- endowment fund derivation
Sense 3 noun
a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
Types & categories
- life estate hypernym
Related & opposite
- dower derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dower |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | gift |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | endowment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dower |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dower |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | endowment fund |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | gift |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | benefice |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dower |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | life estate |