Polygyny

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Polygyny \Po*lyg"y*ny\, n. [Poly- + Gr. ? woman, wife.]
     The state or practice of having several wives at the same
     time; marriage to several wives. --H. Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  polygyny
       n : having more than one wife at a time