JOINTURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of making or becoming a single unit

Example:

he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays

Synonyms:

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("jointure" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jointure"):

coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)

reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)

tribalisation; tribalization (the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis)

umbrella (having the function of uniting a group of similar things)

Derivation:

join (be or become joined or united or linked)

Meaning:

(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower

Synonyms:

jointure; legal jointure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("jointure" is a kind of...):

estate (everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)