bride price
See also: brideprice and bride-price
English
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbɹaɪd pɹaɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]bride price (plural bride prices)
- In some cultures, a sum of money or other valuables paid by a bridegroom or on his behalf to the family of the bride.
- Synonyms: bride gift, bride-gift, bridegift, bride wealth, bride-wealth, bridewealth, bride token, dower, reverse dowry, dowry (in its less common sense)
- Antonym: dowry (in its usual sense)
- Hypernyms: marriage-portion < price, fee, gift
- Hyponyms: mahr, lobola
- 1937, Grace Crowfoot, “Custom and Folk Tale in Palestine. The Dowry or Bride Price,”, in Folklore, volume 48, number 1, page 31:
- It is well known in Artas as in other villages exactly what the bride price should customarily be—so much for a cousin bride, so much more for a village bride, more still for a stranger.
- 2017 January 4, Liu Zhen, “Don’t pay over 60,000 yuan for a bride, say Chinese officials”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 January 2017, China[2]:
- Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.
- 2018 November, Lucy Moore, “Founding Mothers”, in Literary Review:
- Their fares across the Atlantic were paid on the understanding that when they married, their Virginian husbands would pay a bride price for them of 150 pounds of tobacco, then worth about £22 (perhaps seven years’ salary for a domestic maid).
Translations
[edit]sum paid to the family of the bride
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[edit]References
[edit]- “bride price”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.