MONOGYNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monogyny mean? 

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

1. having only one wife at a time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOGYNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having only one wife at a time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

monogamousness; monogamy (the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time)

Derivation:

monogynic (having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines))

monogynist (someone who practices monogamy (one spouse at a time))

monogynous (having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines))