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BRIDE PRICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bride price mean?
• BRIDE PRICE (noun)
The noun BRIDE PRICE has 1 sense:
1. money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride
Familiarity information: BRIDE PRICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("bride price" is a kind of...):
gift (something acquired without compensation)
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