OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2904

polygamy

/pəˈlɪɡ.ə.mi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
poligamia
Synonym of polygyny (“marriage of a man to more than one wife, the practice of having several wives at the same time”).
Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America […]
Though Islam allows polygamy, it is frowned upon in many contemporary Muslim societies.
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