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Is dowry a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dowry is a Scrabble US word. The word dowry is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is dowry a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dowry is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Is dowry a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dowry is a Words With Friends word. The word dowry is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (3 found)

DOWRY,ROWDY,WORDY,

4-letter words (3 found)

DORY,DROW,WORD,

3-letter words (10 found)

DOR,DOW,DOY,DRY,ORD,ROD,ROW,WRY,YOD,YOW,

2-letter words (7 found)

DO,OD,OR,OW,OY,WO,YO,

You can make 23 words from dowry according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of dowry

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dowry. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dowry.

Definitions and meaning of dowry

dowry

Etymology

From Middle English dowarye, dowerie, from Anglo-Norman dowarie, douarie, from Old French douaire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium, from Latin dōs.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdaʊəɹi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdaʊɹi/
  • Rhymes: -aʊəɹi, -aʊɹi

Noun

dowry (countable and uncountable, plural dowries)

  1. Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
  2. (less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
  3. (obsolete) Dower.
  4. A natural gift or talent.
  5. (informal) A large amount.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of E. M. Forster to this entry?)
    But no palace had so fair a ceiling; for from the wooden beams were suspended a whole dowry of copper vessels—pails, cauldrons, water pots, of every colour from lustrous black to the palest pink.

Antonyms

  • dower
  • bride price

Hypernyms

  • marriage-portion

Hyponyms

  • (bride price): lobola

Related terms

  • dowry death
  • reverse dowry
  • dowager
  • endow

Translations

References

  • (large amount): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Verb

dowry (third-person singular simple present dowries, present participle dowrying, simple past and past participle dowried)

  1. To bestow a dowry upon.

See also

  • glory box
  • hope chest
  • trousseau

References

Anagrams

  • rowdy, wordy

Middle English

Noun

dowry

  1. Alternative form of dowarye

Source: wiktionary.org