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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
originKnown 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”).
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