polygyny
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Adult relationships vary in form across societies and include not only the type most common around the world today — heterosexual monogamy — but also same-sex marriage, nonmarital unions, polyamory, polygyny and polyandry.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2022
A third type of polygyny is a lek system.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
While the tomb reveals evidence of polygyny - men having children with multiple women - it also shows that polyandry was also widespread: women having children with multiple men.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021
That polygyny is bad for women is not necessarily intuitive.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2012
Fatherhood, in the full sense of the word, can hardly be said to exist under polygyny.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
