DOWERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: dauʹ-ər, IPA: /ˈdaʊ.əɹ/
• (英国発音) IPA: [ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ)]
• (米国発音) IPA: [ˈdaw.ɚ]
• Homophone: dour (for some speakers)
• 韻: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)

名詞

dower (plural dowers)

1. (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.

   Antonym: curtesy (from deceased wife to her widower)

2. (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage

   Synonyms: bride price, reverse dowry, dower, dowry (in its less common sense)

   Antonym: dowry (in its usual sense)

   Hypernyms: marriage-portion < price, fee, gift

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     […] how features are abroad, / I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty,— / The jewel in my dower,—I would not wish / Any companion in the world but you […]

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:

     In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.

3. (obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
   • c. 1600, John Davies, The Dignity of Man:

     How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!

   • 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches:

     Man in his primeval dower arrayed.

   • 1856, Julia Kavanagh, chapter III, in Rachel Gray, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 49:

     For though God had bestowed on her the rare dower of a fine mind, He had not added to it the much more common, though infinitely less precious gift, of a quick intellect.

関連する語

参考

• bride price
• dower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

動詞

dower (third-person singular simple present dowers, present participle dowering, simple past and past participle dowered)

1. (transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
   • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

     He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth.

2. (transitive) To endow.
   • 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space:

     It was nothing of this earth, but a piece of the great outside; and as such dowered with outside properties and obedient to outside laws.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 dower, equivalent to dough +‎ -er

発音

• 韻: -əʊə(ɹ)

名詞

dower (plural dowers)

1. Alternative spelling of dougher.

アナグラム

• e-word, rowed, worde

語源

Borrowed from Old French doeire, from Medieval Latin dōtārium; equivalent to dowen +‎ -er. Doublet of dowarye.

発音

• IPA: /duːˈɛːr(ə)/, /ˈduːər(ə)/

名詞

dower (plural dowers)

1. A dower; a life estate of a male spouse's property.
2. (rare) A gift given by the bride's family to the groom or his relatives; dowry.
3. (rare, figurative) An intrinsic or inherent property or attribute.
4. (rare, astrology) A portion of the world under the domination of a particular star sign.

派生語

派生した語

• English: dower
• Scots: dower

参照

• “dǒuē̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 October 2018.