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Definition of polygamist in English: polygamistnoun pəˈlɪɡəmɪstpəˈlɪɡəmɪst 1A person who has more than one wife or husband at the same time. a Mississippi-based group of practising polygamists as modifier polygamist communities Example sentencesExamples - My polygamist tendencies wouldn't jive with your inclination for monogamy.
- The case was believed to be the first brought against a polygamist in the United States in nearly 50 years.
- Few people outside the group are likely to have close friends who are polygamists.
- Her truck-driving dad is a polygamist with a second family.
- Most likely, the leadership is using this initiative to wage war against their own renegade, polygamist brethren.
- His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides.
- A polygamist from a breakaway sect demanded a retraction.
- I'm disappointed that the mayor wants to discriminate against polygamists.
- State constitutional bans on polygamy block polygamists from enacting laws that they like.
- There are an estimated 30,000 polygamists in this state.
- 1.1Zoology An animal that has more than one mate.
Example sentencesExamples - These polygamists got dirty later than monogamous males, remaining clean until their second female began laying.
- Are lions polygamists?
- The sexes of other pachydermatous animals differ very little or not at all, and, as far as known, they are not polygamists.
- Does the female prefer any particular male, or does the male, when not a polygamist, select any particular female?
- Birds are polygamists, monogamists, and in certain cases are given to practices of polyandry.
- The capercailzie and the ruff are, as believed, polygamists.
- The males are polygamists, and they have regular appointed places to congregate in numbers to fight together and to display their charms before the females.
- The males, said to be polygamists, are extraordinarily bold and pugnacious, whilst the females are quite pacific.
- In the cuckoo, a polygamist who continues with the female but for a very short time, the testes are small.
- A polygamist has to be a good fighter, so accordingly we find that the peacock is armed with trenchant spurs upon the legs.
Definition of polygamist in US English: polygamistnounpəˈliɡəmistpəˈlɪɡəmɪst 1A person who has more than one wife or husband at the same time. a Mississippi-based group of practicing polygamists as modifier polygamist communities Example sentencesExamples - I'm disappointed that the mayor wants to discriminate against polygamists.
- His disavowal notwithstanding, he sounded more concerned about the rights of polygamists than about the plight of child brides.
- The case was believed to be the first brought against a polygamist in the United States in nearly 50 years.
- Most likely, the leadership is using this initiative to wage war against their own renegade, polygamist brethren.
- Her truck-driving dad is a polygamist with a second family.
- A polygamist from a breakaway sect demanded a retraction.
- State constitutional bans on polygamy block polygamists from enacting laws that they like.
- Few people outside the group are likely to have close friends who are polygamists.
- My polygamist tendencies wouldn't jive with your inclination for monogamy.
- There are an estimated 30,000 polygamists in this state.
- 1.1Zoology An animal that has more than one mate.
Example sentencesExamples - Does the female prefer any particular male, or does the male, when not a polygamist, select any particular female?
- These polygamists got dirty later than monogamous males, remaining clean until their second female began laying.
- The males, said to be polygamists, are extraordinarily bold and pugnacious, whilst the females are quite pacific.
- Are lions polygamists?
- The capercailzie and the ruff are, as believed, polygamists.
- A polygamist has to be a good fighter, so accordingly we find that the peacock is armed with trenchant spurs upon the legs.
- In the cuckoo, a polygamist who continues with the female but for a very short time, the testes are small.
- Birds are polygamists, monogamists, and in certain cases are given to practices of polyandry.
- The males are polygamists, and they have regular appointed places to congregate in numbers to fight together and to display their charms before the females.
- The sexes of other pachydermatous animals differ very little or not at all, and, as far as known, they are not polygamists.
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