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POLYANDRIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyandrist mean? 

POLYANDRIST (noun)
  The noun POLYANDRIST has 1 sense:

1. a woman with two or more husbandsplay

  Familiarity information: POLYANDRIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYANDRIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman with two or more husbands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("polyandrist" is a kind of...):

polygamist (someone who is married to two or more people at the same time)

Derivation:

polyandry (polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband at a time)


 Context examples 


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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