adultery

a·dul·ter·y  (-dlt-r, -tr)

n. pl. a·dul·ter·ies

Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and a partner other than the lawful spouse.

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[Middle English, from Old French adultere, from Latin adulterium, from adulter, adulterer; see adulterate.]

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adultery [əˈdʌltərɪ]

n pl -teries

(Law) voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man or woman and a partner other than the legal spouse

[C15 adulterie, altered (as if directly from Latin adulterium) from C14 avoutrie, via Old French from Latin adulterium, from adulter, back formation from adulterāre. See adulterate]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

adultery - extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" criminal conversation, fornication extramarital sex, free love - sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another

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adultery

noun unfaithfulness, infidelity, cheating (informal), fornication, playing the field (slang), extramarital sex, playing away from home (slang), illicit sex, unchastity, extramarital relations, extracurricular sex (informal), extramarital congress, having an affair or a fling She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.
fidelity, chastity, faithfulness

Quotations
"It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws" [Alexander Theroux An Adultery]
"Adultery is the application of democracy to love" [H.L. Mencken]
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop" [John Updike Couples]

Translations

adultery [əˈdʌltərɪ] N → adulterio m

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adultery [əˈdʌltəri] n → adultère m
to commit adultery → commettre l'adultère

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adultery

n → Ehebruch m; to commit adultery → Ehebruch begehen; because of his adultery with three actresses → weil er mit drei Schauspielerinnen Ehebruch begangen hatte

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adultery [əˈdʌltərɪ] n → adulterio

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adultery

n adultery [əˈdaltəri]

sexual intercourse between a husband and a woman who is not his wife or between a wife and a man who is not her husband. egbreuk زِنَى прелюбодеяние cizoložství ægteskabsbrud; utroskab der Ehebruch μοιχεία adulterio abielurikkumine زنا aviorikos adultère נִאוּף @@@נִיאוּף$$$ व्यभिचार preljub házasságtörés zinah framhjáhald, hjúskaparbrot adulterio 姦通 간통 svetimavimas laulības pārkāpšana zina overspel ekteskapsbrudd, utroskap cudzołóstwo adultério adulter адюльтер, прелюбодеяние cudzoložstvo prešuštvo preljuba äktenskapsbrott การมีชู้ zina 通姦 адюльтер, порушення подружньої вірності ناجائز تعلقات sự ngoại tình 通奸