bigamous

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   of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first

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Questions about bigamous

What does bigamous mean?

bigamous means "of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first".

How many syllables are in bigamous?

bigamous has 3 syllables: bi-ga-mous. The stress falls on "bi".

Is bigamous a common word?

bigamous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.