palimony

1. 1.

   support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends

   Broadersupport payment

Other forms of palimony

plural

palimonies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about palimony

What does palimony mean?

palimony means "support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends".

How many syllables are in palimony?

palimony has 4 syllables: pal-i-mo-ny. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpælɪˌmoʊni/.

Is palimony a common word?

palimony 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.

What rhymes with palimony?

8 words rhyme with palimony. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.