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monogamist

monogamist noun: a person who practices monogamy.

Noun

monogamist (plural monogamists)

  1. A person who practices monogamy.
    • I maintained with Whiston, that it was unlawful for a priest of the church of England, after the death of his first wife, to take a second, or to express it in one word, I valued myself upon being a strict monogamist.1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 2, in The Vicar of Wakefield
    • Suppose, for example, that if polygamy were legal, 10 percent of adult men would take an average of three wives apiece and that all remaining marriages would be monogamous. Among aspiring monogamists, there would then be nine men for every seven women.2006 March 16, Robert H. Frank, “Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?”, in The New York Times

monogamist meaning in Tamil and Telugu

monogamist in Tamil

ஏகதாரவிரதன்

monogamist in Telugu

a monogamist, a man with one wife
ఏకపత్నీవ్రతుడు ēkapatnīvratuḍu

Forms of monogamist

pluralmonogamists

Origin of monogamist

From monogamy + -ist.

Words formed from monogamist

Questions about monogamist

What does monogamist mean?
Monogamist means a person who practices monogamy.
What is monogamist in Tamil?
Monogamist in Tamil is ஏகதாரவிரதன். See Monogamist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is monogamist?
Monogamist is a noun.
What is the plural of monogamist?
The plural of monogamist is monogamists.

Words near monogamist in the dictionary

  1. monogalloylated
  2. monogamian
  3. monogamic
  4. monogamies
  5. monogamish
  6. monogamist
  7. monogamistic
  8. monogamists
  9. monogamize
  10. monogamous
  11. monogamously

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monogamist (page history and authors); monogamist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఏకపత్నీవ్రతుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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