BIGAMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bigamist mean? 

• BIGAMIST (noun)
  The noun BIGAMIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who marries one person while already legally married to another

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGAMIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who marries one person while already legally married to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)

Derivation:

bigamy (the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred)

bigamy (the state of having two spouses at the same time)

 Context examples 

I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,—perhaps the last.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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)