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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 husbands
Familiarity information: POLYANDRIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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