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    Polygamous is the adjective for a person, a marriage, a family, or a custom where someone has more than one husband or wife at the same time. You say a polygamous household, not “a polygamous” when you mean the practice itself — that noun is polygamy. It is a formal, book-and-news word, not playground talk. Though actually, in loose speech people often hear only “one man, several wives,” but the English adjective also covers a woman with more than one husband. It is about marriage, not about secretly seeing someone else, and not about dating several people without being married.

    多配偶的(常被說成「一夫多妻的」,但其實也包括一妻多夫)

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組成poly- “many” + -gamous “to do with marriage.”

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  • polygamythe noun for the same practice
  • monogamousthe opposite pattern: married to one person
  • bigamymarrying a second spouse while still legally married to the first, usually against the law

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polygamousadj/pəˈlɪɡəməs/

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    Of, relating to, or practicing polygamy.

    • That Mormon community no longer practises polygamous relationships.
    • […] declaring legitimate all children of LDS polygamous marriages […]
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    biologybotanynatural-sciencesExhibiting polygamy.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。