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BIGAMIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bigamist mean?
• BIGAMIST (noun)
The noun BIGAMIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
Familiarity information: BIGAMIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bigamist" is a kind of...):
better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)
Derivation:
bigamy (the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred)
bigamy (the state of having two spouses at the same time)
Context examples
I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,—perhaps the last.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone—even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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