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What is polygamy? Explain please:)

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Polygamy is the marriage that includes two or more partners, like a husband with four wives.
User Sakata Gintoki
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I always thought that 'polygamy' refers to the social system in which a man
may have more than one wife, and I thought there's some other word for
where a woman is married to more than one man.

But when I went to look it up just now to answer your question, (which by the
way you could also have done very easily), I found a definition that says it's a
"state of marriage between many spouses". That doesn't specify genders, so
I guess it means any marriage that involves more than two people, no matter
how the genders may be represented or distributed within it.

User Mahesh Gv
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