English Explanatory Dictionary

monogamous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Involving marriage to one person at a time.
  2. Characterized by mutual sexual and romantic exclusively.
  3. Exclusively engaging in mutually exclusive sexual/romantic partnership.
  4. Having only one sexual partner at a time.
  5. Monogamic; having a simple flower with united anthers.

Pronunciation

/məˈnɒɡəməs/ /məˈnɑɡəməs/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-monogamous.wav

Word forms

monogamous

Etymology

From mono- + -gamous.

Antonyms

polygamy

Related words

monogamy polygamous

Derived words

monogamish monogamously monogamousness nonmonogamous trinogamous

Translations

Armenian: միակին Asturian: monógamu Belarusian: манага́мны Belarusian: аднашлю́бны Catalan: monògam Chinese Mandarin: 一夫一妻 Chinese Mandarin: 一夫一妻制 Danish: monogam Esperanto: monogamia Esperanto: monogama Finnish: yksiavioinen French: monogame German: monogam Hungarian: monogám Hungarian: egynejű Icelandic: einkvænis- Icelandic: sem aðhyllist einkvæni Ido: monogama Irish: aonchéileach Irish: monagamach Italian: monogamo Japanese: 一夫一婦の Polish: monogamiczny Portuguese: monógamo Russian: монога́мный Russian: единобра́чный Spanish: monógamo Swedish: monogam Thai: ผัวเดียวเมียเดียว Turkish: tekeşli Ukrainian: монога́мний Ukrainian: одношлю́бний
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