Bigamy

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  • noun. The criminal offense of marrying one person while still legally married to another.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Literally, double marriage; remarriage during the existence of a former marriage; in law, the offense of having two or more wives or husbands at the same time.
  • noun. . Second marriage; remarriage of a widow or widower.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of having two (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously
  • noun. A second marriage
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred
  • noun. having two spouses at the same time
    • Word Usage
    "As such, what we call bigamy, polygamy, etc. would be more like general partnerships."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    marriage  matrimony  regulatory offence  regulatory offense  spousal relationship  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    adultery  arson  cohabitation  concubinage  desertion  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beena marriage  common-law marriage  companionate marriage  concubinage  deuterogamy  
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