sex between a married person and somebody who is not their husband or wife Topics Family and relationshipsc2通奸 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.