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Definition: Alimony |
AlimonyNoun1. Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alimony" was first used: 1655. (references) |
Etymology: Alimony \Al"i*mo*ny\, noun. [Latin expression alimonia, alimonium, nourishment, sustenance, from alere to nourish.]. (Websters 1913) |
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19th Century Satire | An expensive soothing syrup, prescribed by the judge for a divorcee's bleeding heart. (Old spelling, allay money). Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Census | Includes all periodic payments people receive from ex-spouses. Alimony excludes one-time property settlements. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Where a divorce or dissolution of marriage (civil union) is granted, either party may ask for post-marital maintenance (also known as alimony or spousal support). It is not an absolute right, but may be granted, the amount and terms varying with the circumstances. If one party is already receiving support at the time of the divorce, the previous order is not automatically continued (although this can be requested), as the arguments for support during and after the marriage can be different.
Some of the possible factors that bear on the amount and duration of the support are:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alimony."
Synonym: AlimonySynonym: maintenance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Property | Dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy; (gift); Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds. |
Receipt | Pension, annuity; jointure;(property); alimony, palimony, pittance; emolument; (remuneration). |
Wealth | Provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property; command of money. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Alimony |
| English words defined with "alimony": Estovers ♦ From bed and board. (references) |
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Screenplays | With my expenses and my alimony, a prisoner takes home more pay than I do. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) She's making a half a million bucks per year and still collecting alimony from me! (In Harm's Way; writing credit: James Bassett; Wendell Mayes) | |
Clever | Alimony is having an ex-husband you can bank on. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alimony Lovers (1968) Object: Alimony (1928) For Alimony Only (1926) Alimony (1924) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | I guess he's going in for a little alimony.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Children | Mongolia | The law stipulates the obligations regarding divorce, custody, and alimony to the benefit of the parent caring for children. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Jewish and Druze families may ask for some family status matters, such as alimony and child custody in divorces, to be adjudicated in civil courts as an alternative to religious courts. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | For example, in an orfy customary marriage, a woman is not entitled to alimony or pension, has no judicial protection without official recognition by her spouse, and must file a legal petition to establish her children's parentage. (references) |
Women | Indonesia | Divorced women rarely receive alimony. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Women who demonstrate legal grounds for divorce still are entitled to this alimony. (references) | |
Bhutan | Existing legislation requires that all marriages must be registered; it also favors women in matters of alimony. (references) | |
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| "Alimony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alimony" is used about 29 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) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "alimony": deed of alimony. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "alimony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | alimentasie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ushqim (aliment, alimentation, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, input, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), mbështetje (adhesion, aegis, aliment, alimentation, backup, foundation, furtherance, pillar, promotion, purchase, recourse, stock, support, sustenance, sustention, tower). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفقة الزوجة المطلقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | alimenty, výživné (maintenance grant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | underholdsbidrag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | alimentatie (alimentation, etc.), other forms of precipitation, sublimation, various processes which operate to increase the mass of a glacier or of a snow-field (deposition of snow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | alimento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نفقه , خرجی (Maintenance, Spendingmoney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sovitteluyrityksen tuloksettomuuden toteava päätös (order pendente lite regarding wife's domicile and alimony and wardship of children). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aliments, pension alimentaire, pension. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | alimintaasje. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Alimente (alimonies, maintenance), Unterhalt (keep, livelihood, maintenance, sustenance, upkeep), Unterhaltszahlung (palimony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίδομα διατροφήσ σύζηγου στο διαζύγιω, επίδομα διατροφήσ, τροφεία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | א'רת מזון (deed of alimony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | feleségtartási díj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | alimentasi, tunjangan (aid, allowance, subsidy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alimenti (aliments, maintenance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 扶養料 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふようりょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid scarrey poosee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | alimentashon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alimonyay alimentos, alimento (aliment, bread, combustible, diet, eating, feed, food, fuel, keeping, nosh, nourishment, nutrition, pabulum, Peck, pension, provender, sustenance, victual), alimentício (alimentary, dietary, food ( adj. ), nourishing), pensão de alimentos. (various references) алименты, питание (aliment, alimentation, aliments, board, feed, feeding, food, nourishment, nuitrition, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, supply, sustenance). (various references) alimentacija (alimentation), izdržavanje (aliment, alimentation, keep, livelihood, maintenance, support, sustenance, sustention). (various references) asistencias (welfare). (various references) underhållsbidrag, underhåll (allowance, maintenance, service, servicing, support, upkeep). (various references) nafaka (compassionate allowance, maintenance, subsistence, subsistence money, sustentation). (various references) утримання (abstention, abstinence, aliment, alimentation, allowance, deduction, maintenance, sustentation, upkeep), харчування (aliment, alimentation, feed, feeding, food, living, meal, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, sustentation), аліменти, прожиток (livelihood, subsistence). (various references) sự nuôi cho ăn (alimentation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alimonia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "alimony": palimony. (additional references) | |
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"Alimony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acinonyx, Alaemon, alamanni, Alamannia, alamony, alemanni, Alijon, alimany, alimni, alimoney, alimoni, alimunium, allimony, allionii, amin'ny, Ballymonie, Halimione, Kalimpong, salomonic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "alimony" (pronounced a"lumō'nē) |
| 7 | a" l u m ō' n ē | palimony. |
| 5 | -u m ō' n ē | acrimony, ceremony, matrimony, parsimony, patrimony, sanctimony, testimony. |
| 3 | -ō' n ē | telephony. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-n-o-y" | |
-1 letter: mainly, oilman. | |
-2 letters: aloin, amino, amnio, anomy, inlay, liman, loamy, manly, noily. | |
-3 letters: amin, amyl, anil, ayin, inly, lain, lima, limn, limo, limy, lino, liny, lion, loam, loan, loin, mail, main, mano, many, mayo, milo, mina, moan, moil, mola, moly, mony, myna, nail, naoi, noil, noma, oily, only, yoni. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, ami. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: palimony. | |
+2 letters: amylopsin, nominally, nonfamily, normality, polyamine. | |
+3 letters: abominably, amylopsins, binomially, compliancy, dominantly, hypolimnia, infamously, informally, manifoldly, mineralogy, monetarily, polyamines, polynomial, unmorality, womanishly. | |
+4 letters: abdominally, abnormality, amblygonite, amoxycillin, amylopectin, commonality, communality, compliantly, demonically, emotionally, hematoxylin, importantly, indomitably, informality, longanimity, mandatorily, methylation, metonymical, momentarily, monodically, moronically, myofilament, nonmilitary, nonmystical, normatively, polynomials, semitonally, synonymical, toponymical, unanimously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 69 6D 6F 6E 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .. -- --- -. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101001 01101101 01101111 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l i m o n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0069 006D 006F 006E 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35787579818091 |
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