bigamist
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈbɪɡəˌmɪst/
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bigamista
- So your new boyfriend's a bigamist?
- bigamist with a wife
- bigamists and adulterers
- bigamist and a murderer
Examples
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You're dating a married bigamist.
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He's a bigamist.
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I am not a bigamist.
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- I found the bigamist.
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I wonder if I'm a bigamist.
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I am a serial bigamist and am, in fact, married to 37 different women at this moment in time.
Blog text (27) -
You're a bigamist.
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He's a bigamist!
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It's why my long-suffering Jackie was led to live, unaware, as a bigamist, the wife of a Greek who had a face that could stop a thousand ships.
Fiction book (1996) -
The elder Hunt, a bigamist, had three families and 15 children.
Synonyms
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8.2
A person who is married to more than one person at the same time
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bigamist comes from parts meaning 'two' (bi-) and 'marriage' (-gamy), like bicycle uses bi- for 'two'. So a bigamist is someone who has two marriages at the same time, that is, who marries someone while still married to another person.