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# dower

«dower» in Mova's school dictionary: **the money, land or goods a bride brings to her husband…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dower, dowers) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

A dower is the money, land or goods a bride brings to her husband when they marry, or property a widow keeps after her husband dies (old use, from fairy tales). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dower/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a dower is what a father gives with his daughter, often a gift that a suitor must be worthy of.

### examples

- The king promised a castle as her dower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dower/#x1)
- He wanted a bride with a large dower of gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dower/#x2)
- The father said his daughter's dower would be a herd of cows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dower/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.