- jointure, legal jointure - (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
--1 is a kind of estate
- union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure - the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
--2 is a kind of combination, combining, compounding
--2 has particulars:coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination; reunion, reunification; tribalization, tribalisation; umbrella Derived form: verb join5