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big·a·my

 (bĭg′ə-mē)
n.
The criminal offense of marrying one person while still legally married to another.

[Middle English bigamie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bigamia, from Late Latin bigamus, twice married : Latin bi-, two; see bi-1 + Greek gamos, marriage; see -gamous.]

big′a·mist n.
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bigamy

(ˈbɪɡəmɪ)
n, pl -mies
(Law) the crime of marrying a person while one is still legally married to someone else
[C13: via French from Medieval Latin bigamus; see bi-1, -gamy]
ˈbigamist n
ˈbigamous adj
ˈbigamously adv
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big•a•my

(ˈbɪg ə mi)

n., pl. -mies.
the act of marrying one person while still being legally married to another. Compare monogamy, polygamy (def. 1).
[1200–50; Middle English bigamie < Medieval Latin bigamia]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

bigamy

the condition of having two spouses simultaneously. — bigamist, n. — bigamous, adj.
See also: Crime
the state or practice of being married to more than one wife or one husband at a time. — bigamist, n. — bigamous, adj.
See also: Marriage
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bigamy - having two spouses at the same timebigamy - having two spouses at the same time
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock, union - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
2.bigamy - the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurredbigamy - the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred
regulatory offence, regulatory offense, statutory offence, statutory offense - crimes created by statutes and not by common law
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Translations
bigamie
bigami
bigámia
tvíkvæni
bigamiškasdvipatystėturinti du vyrusturintis dvi žmonas
bigāmija, divlaulība
bigamia
iki eşlilikiki karılı/kocalı olma

bigamy

[ˈbɪgəmɪ] Nbigamia f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bigamy

[ˈbɪgəmi] nbigamie fBig Apple n
the Big Apple → New York, la ville de New Yorkbig band
nbig band m
modif [music, sound] → de big band; [era] → des big bandsBig Bang n
the Big Bang → le big bangbig bang theory Big Bang theory nthéorie f du big bangbig business n
(= big companies) → les grandes entreprisesfplles grandes firmes fpl
to be big business (= profitable activity) → être un secteur lucratifbig cat n (lion, tiger)grand félin m, fauve mbig cheese ngros bonnet mbig city n
the big city (as place of opportunity)la grande villebig deal
n
(= important thing) → grosse affaire f
it's no big deal (= not difficult) → ce n'est pas la mer à boire
to make a big deal of sth → faire toute une affaire de qch
excl (= so what) → et après!big dipper nmontagnes fpl russesbig end n [car] → tête f de biellebig fish n (= important person) → gros poisson mbig game ngros gibier m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bigamy

nBigamie f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bigamy

[ˈbɪgəmɪ] nbigamia
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bigamy

(ˈbigəmi) noun
marriage to two wives or two husbands at once (a crime in some countries). He's been charged with committing bigamy.
ˈbigamist noun
ˈbigamous adjective
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She had given him his choice of going away with her at once or of being prosecuted for bigamy. He had gone away with her--gone, and left me.
That's the kind of rulers the old partyites give you!" "The president of the Florida Flying Machine Company is in jail for bigamy. He was a prominent opponent of Socialism, which he said would break up the home!" The "Appeal" had what it called its "Army," about thirty thousand of the faithful, who did things for it; and it was always exhorting the "Army" to keep its dander up, and occasionally encouraging it with a prize competition, for anything from a gold watch to a private yacht or an eighty-acre farm.
Rochester continued, hardily and recklessly: "Bigamy is an ugly word!--I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out- manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,--perhaps the last.
This almost amounts to bigamy. It makes our cheeks burn with shame to see such a thing permitted here in Turkey.
Where this power, or whatever else it may be, descends upon the shoulders of a man whose ways are not straight, he becomes a nuisance to the neighbourhood--a receiver of stolen goods, giver of love-potions, and deceiver of silly women--the avowed enemy of law and order, of justices of the peace, head-boroughs, and gamekeepers,--such a man, in fact, as was recently caught tripping, and deservedly dealt with by the Leeds justices, for seducing a girl who had come to him to get back a faithless lover, and has been convicted of bigamy since then.
Gonzales said Tulfo's marriage with Licup 'is still subsisting' when he married his second wife in 1995, which was a ground for bigamy
Meanwhile, a woman claiming to be the first wife of Raffy filed a complaint for bigamy against him before the Quezon City prosecutor's office.
It did not help that he was caught pants down, when one of his American wives accused him of bigamy.
He already had two wives, was charged with bigamy and was getting engaged to a third woman.
She's now been charged with felony counts of bigamy and falsifying physical evidence as part of her charade to convince her boy friend into marriage.&nbsp;
Those, who support some religious figures, polygamy and bigamy in Kyrgyzstan, cause a huge harm to the future," she said.
Bigamy epidemic 20 cases at Manchester Assizes 'Soldiers and soldiers' wives' ALMOST half of the cases for trial at the Manchester Winter Assizes, which opened today, were concerned with charges for bigamy.