dowry是什么意思？

dowry

英[ˈdaʊri] 美[ˈdaʊri]

• n. 嫁妆；

复数：dowries;

例句

• His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry. 他的家人希望新娘能带来丰厚的嫁妆。
• As a wife , the woman was protected by the setting up of a dowry or decimum. 给已婚妇女备有一份嫁妆,或者称为“decimum”,以使其受到保护.
• Although ours has been so pure and poor That you can take them no great dowry. 贫俭诚所尚,资从岂待周!
• If a young woman did not have a dowry, she went into domestic service. 如果一个年轻女子没有嫁妆，她就要做家政服务赚钱。
• The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store. 她的嫁妆钱都投到了母亲的铺子里。

同义词

• n.
  dowry的同义词之：天赋,才能
  ability, gift, genius, talent, endowment,
  dowry的同义词之：嫁妆
  trousseau,
• dowry的同义词之：其他释义
  gift, genius, settlement, talent, endowment, ability,

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  嫁妆;陪嫁
  A woman's dowry is the money and goods which, in some cultures, her family gives to the man that she marries.
  例句
  The money from her dowry was invested in her mother's store. 她的嫁妆钱都投到了母亲的铺子里。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  嫁妆
  His family hoped that his bride would bring a large dowry. 他的家人希望新娘能带来丰厚的嫁妆。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage