"alimony" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/ [UK], /ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni/ [US] Audio: en-us-alimony.ogg [US] Forms: alimonies [plural]
Etymology: Known since the 17th century, from Latin alimōnia (“food, support, nourishment, sustenance”) (English aliment, as in alimentary), itself from alō (“to nourish”) + -mōnia (“action, state, condition”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂el- (grow)}}, {{der|en|la|alimōnia||food, support, nourishment, sustenance}} Latin alimōnia (“food, support, nourishment, sustenance”), {{cog|en|aliment}} English aliment, {{m|en|alimentary}} alimentary, {{m|la|alō|t=to nourish}} alō (“to nourish”), {{m|la|-mōnia||action, state, condition}} -mōnia (“action, state, condition”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} alimony (countable and uncountable, plural alimonies)
  1. (law, sometimes derogatory) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person. Tags: countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable Categories (topical): Law Synonyms: maintenance Translations (a court-enforced allowance): نَفَقَة (nafaqa) (Arabic), издръжка (izdrǎžka) (Bulgarian), pensió [feminine] (Catalan), 贍養費 (Chinese Mandarin), 赡养费 (shànyǎngfèi) (Chinese Mandarin), výživné [neuter] (Czech), alimenty [masculine, plural] (Czech), hustrubidrag [neuter] (Danish), alimentatie [feminine] (Dutch), alimentatiegeld [neuter] (Dutch), nutramono (Esperanto), alimento (Esperanto), elatusapu (Finnish), pension alimentaire [feminine] (French), ალიმენტი (alimenṭi) (Georgian), Unterhalt [masculine] (German), Alimente [plural] (German), επίδομα διατροφής (epídoma diatrofís) [neuter] (Greek), διατροφή (diatrofí) [colloquial, feminine] (Greek), מְזוֹנוֹת (mezonót) [masculine, plural] (Hebrew), feleségtartás (Hungarian), asszonytartás (Hungarian), házastárstartás (Hungarian), nőtartás (Hungarian), tartásdíj (Hungarian), eltartás (Hungarian), ailiúnas [masculine] (Irish), alimenti [masculine, plural] (Italian), 扶養料 (fuyōryō) (alt: 離婚 (りこん, rikon)) (Japanese), argid scarrey poosee [masculine] (Manx), alimenty [masculine, plural] (Polish), pensão alimentícia [feminine] (Portuguese), pensão [feminine] (Portuguese), pensie de întreținere [feminine] (Romanian), pensie alimentară [feminine] (Romanian), алименты (alimenty) [masculine, plural] (Russian), pensión alimenticia [feminine] (Spanish), pensión [feminine] (Spanish), underhåll (Swedish), ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู (kâa-ùp-bpà-gaa-rá-líiang-duu) (Thai), nafaka (Turkish), аліме́нти (aliménty) [masculine, plural] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-alimony-en-noun-Zk96q7X7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'a court-enforced allowance': 92 8
  2. (obsolete) Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Translations (the means to support life): onderhoud [neuter] (Dutch), dagelijks brood [neuter] (Dutch), levensonderhoud [neuter] (Dutch), toimeentulo (Finnish), elanto (Finnish), elatus (Finnish), τροφεία (trofeía) [neuter, plural] (Greek), ailiúnas [masculine] (Irish), alimonia [feminine] (Latin), сре́дства к существова́нию (srédstva k suščestvovániju) [neuter, plural] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-alimony-en-noun-rz3ccTTJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of 'the means to support life': 31 69
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: alimonious, alimony drone, manimony, nonalimony, palimony, vaginamony Related terms: aliment, alimentary, child support

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
          "word": "扶養料"
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "argid scarrey poosee"
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "word": "pensie de întreținere"
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          "roman": "alimenty",
          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "word": "алименты"
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "roman": "kâa-ùp-bpà-gaa-rá-líiang-duu",
          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "roman": "aliménty",
          "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
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          "ref": "1626, Sampson Price, Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall, pages 27–28",
          "text": "[…]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]",
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          "ref": "1633, John Randal, Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber-man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace, pages 32–33",
          "text": "[…]What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.",
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          "ref": "1653, Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling, →OCLC, page 308",
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          "word": "toimeentulo"
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          "word": "elanto"
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          "word": "elatus"
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          "roman": "trofeía",
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          "word": "τροφεία"
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          "roman": "srédstva k suščestvovániju",
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}
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Requests for review of Italian translations",
    "Requests for review of Japanese translations",
    "Requests for review of Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Requests for review of Telugu translations"
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      "word": "alimonious"
    },
    {
      "word": "alimony drone"
    },
    {
      "word": "manimony"
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      "word": "nonalimony"
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      "word": "child support"
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        {
          "ref": "1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), spoken by Kevin Dolenz (Andrew McCarthy)",
          "text": "Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.",
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        "(law, sometimes derogatory) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person."
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        {
          "ref": "1626, Sampson Price, Londons remembrancer: for the staying of the contagious sicknes of the plague by Dauids memoriall, pages 27–28",
          "text": "[…]while we eate the bread of sorrow, drinking the wine of compunction, wee hunger and thirst after heauenly things, and shall be comforted. This is the constant alimonie of the righteous, at dinner and supper, in life and death[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1633, John Randal, Noble Blastus the honor of a lord chamberlaine: and of a good bed-chamber-man: or The courtier justified in conditions of peace, pages 32–33",
          "text": "[…]What marvell if our corne faile us, when wee faile God in the good employment of our corne?[…]So that drunkennesse, gluttony, fraud, covetisme, the unworthy receiving, or not receiving of the Sacraments, and a million more are all in cause, why God denies this fruitfull alimonie, which formerlie he gave. And doe we then aske what is the cause? when as our sinnes so superabundant are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1653, Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling, →OCLC, page 308",
          "text": "[…]having the advantage of this strange way of alimony, he sold his allowance of provant at great rates;[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit."
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        "(obsolete) Nourishment, sustenance, especially for one's spirit."
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        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
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      "ipa": "/ˈæl.ɪ.mə.ni/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
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      "ipa": "/ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni/",
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nafaqa",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "نَفَقَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izdrǎžka",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "издръжка"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensió"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "贍養費"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shànyǎngfèi",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "赡养费"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "výživné"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "alimenty"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "hustrubidrag"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alimentatie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "alimentatiegeld"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "nutramono"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "alimento"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "elatusapu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pension alimentaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "alimenṭi",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "ალიმენტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Unterhalt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Alimente"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epídoma diatrofís",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "επίδομα διατροφής"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "diatrofí",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "διατροφή"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mezonót",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "מְזוֹנוֹת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "feleségtartás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "asszonytartás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "házastárstartás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "nőtartás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "tartásdíj"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "eltartás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ailiúnas"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "alimenti"
    },
    {
      "alt": "離婚 (りこん, rikon)",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fuyōryō",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "扶養料"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "argid scarrey poosee"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "alimenty"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensão alimentícia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensie de întreținere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensie alimentară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "alimenty",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "алименты"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensión alimenticia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pensión"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "underhåll"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kâa-ùp-bpà-gaa-rá-líiang-duu",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "word": "nafaka"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "aliménty",
      "sense": "a court-enforced allowance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "аліме́нти"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "onderhoud"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "dagelijks brood"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "levensonderhoud"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "word": "toimeentulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "word": "elanto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "word": "elatus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "trofeía",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "τροφεία"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ailiúnas"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alimonia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "srédstva k suščestvovániju",
      "sense": "the means to support life",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "сре́дства к существова́нию"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "alimony"
  ],
  "word": "alimony"
}

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