Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Words Described by "Portion"

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What Google Knows

A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower.

Related Definition

  1. portion:

    n An allocated amount.

    n That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

    n One's fate; lot.

    n The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.

    n A wife's fortune; a dowry.

    v (transitive) To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.

    v (transitive) To endow with a portion or inheritance.


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