"Is there any reason I need to be in the delivery room when my wife is giving birth?" "Only if the word 'alimony' means anything to you."
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Alimony
//ˈæl.ə.moʊ.ni//
Synonyms for "alimony" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
Translations
58 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَفَقَة noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Bulgarian
1 entries- издръжка noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Catalan
1 entries- pensió noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 贍養費 /赡养费 noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Czech
2 entries- alimenty noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- výživné noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Danish
1 entries- hustrubidrag noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Dutch
4 entries- alimentatie noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- alimentatiegeld noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- dagelijks brood noun (the means to support life)
- levensonderhoud noun (the means to support life)
Esperanto
2 entries- alimento noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- nutramono noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Finnish
4 entries- elanto noun (the means to support life)
- elatus noun (the means to support life)
- elatusapu noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- toimeentulo noun (the means to support life)
French
1 entries- pension alimentaire noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Georgian
1 entries- ალიმენტი noun (a court-enforced allowance)
German
2 entries- Alimente noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- Unterhalt noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Greek
3 entries- διατροφή noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- επίδομα διατροφής noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- τροφεία noun (the means to support life)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְזוֹנוֹת noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Hungarian
4 entries- asszonytartás noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- eltartás noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- feleségtartás noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- házastárstartás noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Irish
2 entries- ailiúnas noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- ailiúnas noun (the means to support life)
Italian
1 entries- alimenti noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Japanese
1 entries- 扶養料 noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Latin
1 entries- alimonia noun (the means to support life)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- alimenty noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Manx
1 entries- argid scarrey poosee noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Persian
3 entries- باروزه noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- خرجی noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- نفقه noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Polish
1 entries- alimenty noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Portuguese
2 entries- pensão noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- pensão alimentícia noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Romanian
2 entries- pensie alimentară noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- pensie de întreținere noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Russian
2 entries- алименты noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- сре́дства к существова́нию noun (the means to support life)
Spanish
4 entries- alimentos noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- mantención noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- manutención noun (a court-enforced allowance)
- pensión alimenticia noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Swedish
1 entries- underhåll noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Thai
1 entries- ค่าอุปการะเลี้ยงดู noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Turkish
1 entries- nafaka noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Ukrainian
1 entries- аліме́нти noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Welsh
1 entries- alimoni noun (a court-enforced allowance)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
She only wants alimony. In every other respect, I mean nothing to her.
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Tom said he was three months behind on alimony.
Source: tatoeba (3730045)
Tom said that he was three months behind on alimony.
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