• Co-husband

    Origin

    - + husband.

    Full definition of co-husband

    Noun

    co-husband

    (plural co-husbands)
    1. In a polyandrous marriage, another husband of a man's wife.
      • 1997, David Lipset, Mangrove man: dialogics of culture in the Sepik estuary, When younger brother calls elder brother's wife his "co-wife" and reciprocally, when she calls him "co-husband," rights in sexuality are being satirized.
      • 2004, Govindraraj Sulekha, The Co-husband, The village chief Sambhu, upheld Mahesh’s claim to half of Damodar’s wealth since he was his co-husband

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