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It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
David Josiah Brewer

Meaning of "polygamy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POLYGAMY

Via French from Greek polugamia from poly- + -gamy.
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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYGAMY

polygamy  [pəˈlɪɡəmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYGAMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Polygamy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POLYGAMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Polygamy

Polygamy is a marriage that includes more than two partners. When a man is married to more than one wife at a time, the relationship is called polygyny; and when a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry. If a marriage includes multiple husbands and wives, it can be called group or conjoint marriage. The term is used in related ways in social anthropology, sociology, as well as in popular speech. In contrast, monogamy is a marriage consisting of only two parties. Like monogamy, the term polygamy is often used in a de facto sense, applied regardless of whether the relationship is recognized by the state. In sociobiology and zoology, polygamy is used in a broad sense to mean any form of multiple mating. The only form in which polygamy is legally recognised in countries which do so, is for a man to take multiple wives. In those countries that do not permit polygamy, a person who marries a second person while still being lawfully married is committing the crime of bigamy. In the global context, acceptance of polygamy is common.

Definition of polygamy in the English dictionary

The first definition of polygamy in the dictionary is the condition of having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant. Other definition of polygamy is the condition of having these different types of flower on separate plants of the same species. Polygamy is also the practice in male animals of having more than one mate during one breeding season.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYGAMY


agami
ˈæɡəmɪ
autogamy
ɔːˈtɒɡəmɪ
bigamy
ˈbɪɡəmɪ
cryptogamy
krɪpˈtɒɡəmɪ
digamy
ˈdɪɡəmɪ
endogamy
ɛnˈdɒɡəmɪ
exogamy
ɛkˈsɒɡəmɪ
hercogamy
hɜːˈkɒɡəmɪ
hologamy
həʊˈlɒɡəmɪ
homogamy
hɒˈmɒɡəmɪ
hypergamy
haɪˈpɜːɡəmɪ
karyogamy
ˌkærɪˈɒɡəmɪ
misogamy
mɪˈsɒɡəmɪ
monogamy
mɒˈnɒɡəmɪ
pangamy
ˈpænɡəmɪ
pantagamy
pænˈtæɡəmɪ
porogamy
pɔːˈrɒɡəmɪ
syngamy
ˈsɪŋɡəmɪ
trigamy
ˈtrɪɡəmɪ
zoogamy
zəʊˈɒɡəmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYGAMY

polygala
polygalaceous
polygam
polygamic
polygamise
polygamist
polygamize
polygamous
polygamously
polygene
polygenesis
polygenetic
polygenetically
polygenic
polygenism
polygenist
polygenous
polygeny
polyglot
polyglotism

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYGAMY

allogamy
anisogamy
apogamy
autoallogamy
chalazogamy
chasmogamy
cleistogamy
clistogamy
deuterogamy
dichogamy
geitonogamy
heterogamy
isogamy
oogamy
plasmogamy
serial monogamy
siphonogamy
thingamy
xenogamy

Synonyms and antonyms of polygamy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polygamy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYGAMY

Find out the translation of polygamy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of polygamy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «polygamy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一夫多妻制
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la poligamia
570 millions of speakers

English

polygamy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बहुविवाह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تعدد الزوجات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

многоженство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poligamia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বহুবিবাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polygamie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Poligami
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Polygamie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

一夫多妻
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일부 다처제
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Poligami
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình trạng nhiều vợ hoặc chồng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பலதார மணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहूपत्नीकत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çok eşlilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poligamia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poligamia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

багатоженство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poligamia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολυγαμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poligamie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polygami
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polygami
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polygamy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYGAMY»

The term «polygamy» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.793 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYGAMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «polygamy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «polygamy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about polygamy

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6 QUOTES WITH «POLYGAMY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word polygamy.
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Scott Anderson
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
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Judy Biggert
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
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David Josiah Brewer
It is Mormonism, Mohammedanism and heathenism and not Christianity which have proclaimed polygamy and debased woman from the sacred place of wife to the lower level of concubine. It is not Christianity which has sustained the social evil.
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Dennis Prager
Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.
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Gene Robinson
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
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Jeanne Tripplehorn
The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYGAMY»

Discover the use of polygamy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polygamy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy
In this gripping and eloquent book, Susan Ray Schmidt tells the story of growing up on the inside and of her ultimate escape.
Susan Ray Schmidt, 2009
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Mormon polygamy: a history
An informative outline of the secret origins of Mormon polygamy, the peculiarities of the early practice, "unofficial" polygamous marriages at the turn-of-the-century and present-day fundamentalist Mormon groups which still practice ...
Richard S. Van Wagoner, 1989
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Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy
A woman who grew up among outlaw Utah polygamists offers an astonishing and shocking window into this secret world of religious fundamentalism and describes her own break with the group and quest for personal identity.
Dorothy Allred Solomon, 2004
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Polygamy and Monogamy
Milton presents a reproduction of a controversial book published in 1869 in which a Christian philanthropist defends polygamy.
Don Milton, 2009
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Polygamy
Essays debate issues related to North American views on polygamy, including whether it should be tolerated, how the practice impacts women's rights, and the social consequences of legal polygamy.
Ronald D. Lankford, Ronnie D. Lankford, 2008
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Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy
More than just an expose of Mormon polygamy, Secrets and Wives is the personal journey of a foreign atheist and liberal, a stranger in a strange land who grapples with hard questions about marriage, monogamy, and the very nature of faith.
Sanjiv Bhattacharya, 2013
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Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Especially in societies undergoing rapid social changes, polygamy may give people a way of expressing allegiance to their version of their traditional culture and society, as well as their religion. Polygamy is, in other words, a very flexible ...
Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, 2008
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The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in ...
From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law.
Sarah Barringer Gordon, 2002
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Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon ...
A provocative look at the costs and benefits of polygamy among western fundamentalist Mormon women
Janet Bennion, 2012
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Our Kind of Polygamy
Should Europe and America legalise polygamy? What really is the African's honest opinion of polygamy? David Maillu is a leading African literary writer, and here provocatively discusses these issues.
David G. Maillu, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYGAMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polygamy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Commentary: Is polygamy the next frontier in marriage?
Similarly, the same-sex marriage advocate Jonathan Rauch has argued that polygamy allows “high-status men to hoard wives” and ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
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Putin Is Down With Polygamy
And yet, many veteran observers of Chechnya and the Muslim North Caucasus noted that polygamy was now commonplace in the region. «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
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Polygamy prosecutions a mixed blessing for women
The B.C. Supreme Court's recent decision refusing to quash polygamy charges against Winston Blackmore, a leader in the fundamentalist ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
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Does Legal Same-Sex Marriage Presage Polygamy?
To the Editor: Whenever someone starts the slippery-slope argument in discussing same-sex marriage, as William Baude did (“Is Polygamy ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Polygamy - Social Malaise or Necessary Evil?
"A few years ago, when the Marriage and Divorce Bill 2009 was still the Domestic Relations Bill, we had proposed a ban on polygamy," says ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Polygamy is next & we knew it all along, university prof …
Ziona is the head of a religious sect called "Chana," which allows polygamy and was founded by his father Chana in 1942. Ziona has 39 wives, ... «Christian Examiner, Jul 15»
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Polygamy's Coming (Yawn)
Clickbait titles are rampant on the Internet, but I was still surprised to see William Baude's article “Is Polygamy Next?” in the morning print ... «First Things, Jul 15»
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Is Polygamy Next?
Similarly, the same-sex marriage advocate Jonathan Rauch has argued that polygamy allows “high-status men to hoard wives” and ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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FIRST-PERSON: Next up, polygamy
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP) -- Nathan Collier and his "wives" -- Vicki and Christine -- want to get married. Actually, Nathan and Vicki are already legally married but ... «BP News, Jul 15»
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'I realised I was polyamorous 5 years into my marriage' - the …
While polyamory could result in a polygamous family; not all polygamy is polyamorous. According to our guest, polyamory is about equality in ... «News24, Jul 15»

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