monogamous

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ -gamous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈnɒɡəməs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈnɑɡəməs/

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Adjective

monogamous (not comparable)

1. (strictly) Being married to one person at a time.
   • 2006 March 16, Robert H. Frank, “Polygamy and the Marriage Market: Who Would Have the Upper Hand?”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

2. (loosely) Being exclusively committed to one significant other at a time.
3. (zoology) Having only one sexual partner at a time.
4. (botany) Monogamic; having a simple flower with united anthers.

Related terms

• monogamy

Translations

being married to one person at a time

Armenian: միակին (hy) (miakin) Asturian: monógamu Belarusian: манага́мны (manahámny), аднашлю́бны (adnašljúbny) Catalan: monògam Chinese: Mandarin: 一夫一妻 (zh) (yī fū yī qī), 一夫一妻制 (zh) (yī fū yī qī zhì) Danish: monogam (da) Esperanto: monogamia (eo), monogama Finnish: yksiavioinen (fi) French: monogame (fr) German: monogam (de) Hungarian: monogám (hu), egynejű (hu) Icelandic: einkvænis-, (adhering to monogamy) sem aðhyllist einkvæni Ido: monogama (io) Irish: aonchéileach, monagamach Italian: monogamo Japanese: 一夫一婦の (ippuippu no) Polish: monogamiczny (pl) Portuguese: monógamo (pt) m Russian: монога́мный (ru) (monogámnyj), единобра́чный (ru) (jedinobráčnyj) Spanish: monógamo Swedish: monogam (sv) Thai: ผัวเดียวเมียเดียว (pǔua-diao-miia-diao) Turkish: tekeşli (tr) Ukrainian: монога́мний (monohámnyj), одношлю́бний (odnošljúbnyj)

having only one sexual partner at a time

Catalan: monògam German: monogam (de) Hungarian: monogám (hu) Irish: aonchéileach, monagamach Portuguese: monógamo (pt) m

See also

• polygamous