Usually means: Promise to marry; engagement vow.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word betroth:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. betroth: Merriam-Webster
  2. betroth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. betroth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. betroth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. betroth: Vocabulary.com
  6. betroth: Wordnik
  7. betroth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. betroth: Wiktionary
  9. betroth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. betroth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. betroth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Betroth, betroth: Dictionary.com
  13. betroth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Betroth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Betroth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. betroth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. betroth: Rhymezone
  18. Betroth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. betroth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. betroth: FreeDictionary.org
  21. betroth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. betroth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. betroth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. betroth: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Betroth: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. betroth: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See betrothed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (betroth)

verb:  To promise to give in marriage.
verb:  To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one's troth to.

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