It depends on the culture, but many polygamist wives refer to the other women married to their husband as 'sister wives'.
Yes, he has four wives.
The wives in a polygamous relationship often refer to themselves as "sister-wives".
Only men of a certain religion are polygamist. The wives in a polygamist marriage are all monogamist.
A man with two wives is called a bigamist. A polygamist has more than two marital partners.
The wives are not wives with each other. They are just married to the same man.
The other wives are usually called "Sister Wives". In most polygamous families they have a good relationship and work together to do housework and take care of the children. They may or may not live under the same roof.
Lamech was the the first polygamist mentioned in the Bible. He killed both of his wives.
Polygamist
Lamech. (There are two different Lamechs; the one descended from Cain rather than Seth is the polygamist.) While the narrative names Lamech's two wives it does not explicitly state that he was the first polygamist... the genealogy in Genesis only names a few people specifically, and simply refers generically to other sons and daughters besides the ones mentioned by name. Lamech is just the first polygamist that's unambiguously pointed out; there may or may not have been others before him.
yes, he's a polygamist with 6 wives and 22 children as of 9/3/11
He's a bigamist in the eyes of the law, but recently, the word polygamist has appeared in the press.
A person who has more than one partner at the same time. Polygamist