bride price

1. 1.

   money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride

   Broadergift

Questions about bride price

What does bride price mean?

bride price means "money or property given (in some societies) by the bridegroom to the family of his bride".

Is bride price a common word?

bride price is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.