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big·a·my

(bĭg′ə-mē)

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]

bigamy

the condition of having two spouses simultaneously. — bigamist, n. — bigamous, adj.

bigamy

[ˈbɪgəmɪ] N → bigamia 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] n → bigamie fBig Apple n
the Big Apple → New York, la ville de New York big band

n → big band m

modif [music, sound] → de big band ; [era] → des big bandsBig Bang n
the Big Bang → le big bang big bang theory Big Bang theory n → théorie f du big bang big business n

(= big companies) → les grandes entreprises fpl → les grandes firmes fpl

to be big business (= profitable activity) → être un secteur lucratif big cat n (lion, tiger) → grand félin m, fauve mbig cheese n → gros bonnet mbig city n
the big city (as place of opportunity) → la grande ville big deal

(= 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 n → montagnes fpl russes big end n [car] → tête f de bielle big fish n (= important person) → gros poisson mbig game n → gros gibier m

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bigamy

n → Bigamie 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] n → bigamia

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. bigamie, tweewywery الجَمْعُ بيْنَ زوجَيْن أو زَوْجَتَيْن في وقتٍ واحِد двубрачие bigamia bigamie die Bigamie bigami διγαμία bigamia kaksikabielu دو همسری kaksiavioisuus bigamie ביגמיה द्विविवाह bigamija bigámia beristri dua, bigami tvíkvæni bigamia 重婚 중혼 dvipatystė bigāmija, divlaulība bigami bigamie bigami, dobbeltekteskap bigamia bigamia bigamie двубрачие bigamia bigamija bigamija bigami, tvegifte การมีคู่ครองทีเดียวสองคน iki eşlilik, iki karılı/kocalı olma 重婚(罪) двошлюбність دو شادیاں کرنا lấy hai vợ, hai chồng 重婚(罪)

ˈbigamist noun

bigamis مُتَزوِّج مِن امءرَأَتيْن، مُتَزَوِّجَه من رَجُليْن двуженец bígamo bigamista der/die Bigamist(in) bigamist ο δίγαμος bígamo kahenaisepidaja, kahemehepidaja داشتن دو همسر bigamisti bigame בִּיגַמִיסְט द्विपत्नीक, द्विपतिका bigamist bigámista orang beristri dua tvíkvænismaður bigamo 重婚者 중혼자 turintis dvi žmonas, turinti du vyrus bigāmists (ar divām sievām/diviem vīriem) bigamis bigamist bigamist bigamista bígamo bigam двоеженец; двумужница bigamista, -ka bigamist bigamista bigamist ผู้มีสามีหรือภรรยาสองคน iki eşli kişi 重婚者 двоєженець; двоємужниця دو شادیان کرنے والا người phạm tội hai vợ, hai chồng 重婚者

ˈbigamous adjective

bigamiese مُتَعَلِّق بِزواج من إثْنَيْن أو إثْنَتَيْن двубрачен bígamo bigamický bigamisch bigamistisk δίγαμος, διγαμικός bígamo kaksikabieluline شخص دو همسره avioliitto, jossa toinen osapuoli on syyllistynyt kaksiavioisuuteen bigame אָשֶם בְּבִּיגַמיָה द्विविवाही, दुहाजू bigamni kettős házasságban élő yang beristri dua tvíkvænis- bigamo 重婚の 중혼의 bigamiškas bigāmijas- melakukan bigami bigamisch bigamisk, som har to ektefeller bigamiczny دوه ښځه لرونکی سری bígamo bigam двубрачный bigamický bigamen bigaman skyldig till (innebärande) bigami ซึ่งมีคู่ครองทีเดียวสองคน iki eşli, iki karılı/kocalı 重婚的 двошлюбний تعدد ازواج سے متعلق có hai vợ/ có hai chồng 重婚的

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This almost amounts to bigamy. It makes our cheeks burn with shame to see such a thing permitted here in Turkey.

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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.

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