单词 | bride price |
释义 | bride price (once / 256942 pages) n WORD FAMILY bride price USAGE EXAMPLESTo marry, men in South Sudan’s herding communities pay the girl’s father a bride price in dozens of cows. Los Angeles Times(Aug 28, 2016) The bride price is typically 20 to 40 cows, each worth up to $500. Los Angeles Times(Jul 29, 2016) The showstopper was a song from the north, titled Eteso Emali, in which a prospective groom bargains a bride price with his betrothed’s family. The Guardian(May 18, 2016) n money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride Hyper gift something acquired without compensation |
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