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English noun: jointure | |||
| 1. | jointure (possession) (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | ||
| Synonyms | legal jointure | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | estate | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 2. | jointure (act) the act of making or becoming a single unit | ||
| Samples | The union of opposing factions. He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays. | ||
| Synonyms | conjugation, unification, union, uniting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | combination, combining, compounding | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination, reunification, reunion, tribalisation, tribalization, umbrella | ||
| Antonyms | disunion | ||
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