adultery
noun/əˈdʌltəri/
/əˈdʌltəri/
[uncountable]- sex between a married person and somebody who is not their husband or wife
- He was accused of committing adultery.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + adultery- be guilty of
- commit
- accuse somebody of
- …
- adultery with
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from the obsolete noun adulter, from Latin adulter ‘adulterer’, replacing an earlier form avoutrie, from Old French avouterie.Definitions on the go
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