jointure

Other forms of jointure

plural

jointures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jointure

What does jointure mean?

jointure means "(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jointure?

jointure has 2 syllables: join-ture. The stress falls on "join".

What is another word for jointure?

Close synonyms include legal jointure, union, unification, uniting, conjugation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jointure a common word?

jointure 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.