Menage vs Polygamy - What's the difference?
menage | polygamy |
A household; a domestic situation.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 39:
A group of people living together in a sexual relationship.
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The having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time
The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.
* 1991 , Kathryn M Daynes, Plural wives and the nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system , page 16
* 2008 , Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis , p 3
(zoology) The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
(botany) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
Commonly used specifically for polygyny, the marriage of a man to more than one wife, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time.
As nouns the difference between menage and polygamy
is that menage is condiment set (found on dining tables) while polygamy is the having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time.menage
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* menageNoun
(en noun)- It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage .
polygamy
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(polygamies)- ''Originally polygamy could work either or both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands
- Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America
- Muslims and early Mormon communities have been known to practise polygamy .
- An insect queen actually practices polygamy''' only one day, while for an alpha-male defending his harem is the very essence of both his status and ' polygamy
- ''The Islamic form of polygamy is a husband with up to four wives
