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Definitions: Bigamy |
BigamyNoun1. Having more than one spouse at a time. 2. The offense of having two or more wives or husbands living at the same time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bigamy" was first used: sometime around 1250. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | BIGAMY, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | A form of insanity in which a man insists on paying three board bills instead of two. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | For a man to commit bigamy, denotes loss of manhood and failing mentality. To a woman, it predicts that she will suffer dishonor unless very discreet. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BigamySynonym: Multiple marriage. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Marriage | Monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy; mormonism; levirate; spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism; polyandrism; Turk, bluebeard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bigamy |
| English words defined with "bigamy": Deuterogamy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bigamy": BIGAMY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bigamy": Bigam ♦ Digamy ♦ Polygamous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The three of us? Why that's bigamy! (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) | |
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| "Bigamy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Bigamy" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bigamy | 73 |
bigamy law missouri | 44 |
bigamy law | 15 |
bigamy california law | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bigamy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bigami, martesë me dy gra e dy burra njëherësh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضارة, تزوج من إمرئتين, التزوج على ضر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бигамия, двуженство, двубрачие. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bigamie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bigamie plegen, bigamie, een dubbel huwelijk aangaan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دوزن داری , دوشوهری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaksinnaiminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bigamie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bigamie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διγαμία (digamy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בי'מי". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bigámia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bigami. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bigamia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 重婚 , 二重結婚 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | にじゅうけっ"", じゅう"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | daa-phoosey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igamybay bigamia. (various references) bigamie. (various references) бигамия, двоеженство. (various references) bigamija, dvoženstvo. (various references) bigamia. (various references) bigami, tvegifte. (various references) การมีคู่ครองทีเ"ียวสองคน. (various references) bigami, iki eşlilik. (various references) дво"женство. (various references) sự lấy hai vợ, sự lấy hai ch"ng. (various references) dwywreigiaeth. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | bigamus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Bigamy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ba-aby, Badami, Bagamoyo, bagary, Bargany, Bhiwani, Biamby, Biga, bigamo, bigary, bigay, bigemini, Bigham, Biglan, bigme, bigomy, bigum, brigama, igamy, Ivamy, nigam, Uiagm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bigamy" (pronounced 'Big"a*my'): Academy, Adenotomy, Adesmy, Adynamy, Agronomy, Alchemy, Allogamy, Anatomy, Andranatomy, Androtomy, Angiotomy, Anomy, Antinomy, Aplotomy, Apogamy, Aponeurotomy, Archenemy, Army, Arrhytmy, Arteriotomy, Astronomy, Atimy, Autogamy, Autonomy, Belamy, Bionomy, Blasphemy, Blosmy, Bronchotomy, Capsulotomy, Celotomy, Cephalotomy, Chalazogamy, Chasmy, Chirognomy, Chironomy, Cholecystotomy, Chondrotomy, Cirsotomy, Clammy, Cleronomy, Coenogamy, Colotomy, Craniognomy, Craniotomy, Crummy, Cystotomy, Dactylonomy, Demonomy, Deuterogamy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-m-y" | |
-2 letters: bima, gaby, gamb, gamy, iamb, magi, yagi. | |
-3 letters: aby, aim, ami, bag, bam, bay, big, gab, gam, gay, gib, gym, mag, may, mib, mig, yam. | |
-4 letters: ab, ag, ai, am, ay, ba, bi, by, ma, mi, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-m-y" | |
+2 letters: embaying. | |
+3 letters: ambiguity. | |
+4 letters: bigamously, imaginably, ramblingly. | |
+5 letters: ambiguously, amblygonite, amphibology, embracingly, immitigably, impregnably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 67 61 6D 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. --. .- -- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 01100001 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g a m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 0061 006D 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367573677991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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