Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun levirate

1 sense of levirate

Sense 1
levirate -- (the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line)
       => institution -- (a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater")