Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The practice or condition of having only one wife at a time.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In zoology and anthropology, a mating with only one female or wife; the monogynous state: correlated with monandry.
Wiktionary
- n. The practice of having one wife at the same time.
- n. The condition in ants of having only one queen at a time.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Marriage with the one woman only.
- n. (Bot.) The state or condition of being monogynous.
WordNet 3.0
- n. having only one wife at a time
Examples
“Despite praise for levirate marriage, it was almost completely abandoned by the end of the second century C.E. as it often clashed with the move toward monogyny.”
“However, internal developments, as well as the influence of the western civilizations under whose aegis the Jews had come beginning with the third century B.C.E. (the Greeks and then the Romans), tended toward monogyny and dowry marriages.”
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of or relating to women
Note: also gyn-, gyne-, gyno, gyneo-gynecology, gynarchy, gynophore, polygynous, monogyny, gynephobia, gynecocracy, gyneolatry
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