Overview of noun dower

The noun dower has 2 senses

• dowry, dowery, dower, portion -- (money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage)


• dower -- (a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband)

Overview of verb dower

The verb dower has 1 sense

• endow, dower -- (furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered")