agapemone
noun
ag·a·pem·o·ne
ˌa-gə-ˈpe-mə-(ˌ)nē
plural -s
often capitalized
: a free-love institution
allow Christopher to run an Agapemone in what was after all her own house
F. M. Ford
F. M. Ford
Word History
Etymology
from Agapemone, a communistic establishment that was founded about 1849 at Spaxton, England, and had a reputation for immoral behavior, irregular from Greek agapē love + monē stopping place, from menein to remain
First Known Use
1860, in the meaning defined above
- contesseration
- contesserations
- contest
- contestable
- contestant
- contestants
- contestation
- contestations
- contested
- contested election
- contestee
- contester
- contesters
- contesting
- contests
- conteur
- conteurs
- context
- context-free
- contextless
- contexts
- contextual
- contextual definition
- contextualisation
- contextualisations