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
Unlike polygyny, where one man is married to multiple women, most polyamorists aren’t motived by religion.
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2013
In Tibet itself polygyny exists side by side with polyandry amongst the wealthy classes, while monogamy is the rule amongst the poor pastoral nomads of the northern steppe.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
