monogamy

Definitions


[məˈnɒɡəmi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the practice of marrying or state of being married to one person at a time
(e.g: Judaism has journeyed from polygamy to strict monogamy)


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Origin:
early 17th century: from French monogamie, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek monogamia, from monos ‘single’ + gamos ‘marriage’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries