EXOGAMY
Dictionary entry overview: What does exogamy mean? • EXOGAMY (noun)
The noun EXOGAMY has 1 sense:
1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Familiarity information: EXOGAMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EXOGAMY (noun)
Meaning:
Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
exogamy; intermarriage
Hypernyms ("exogamy" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
Antonym:
endogamy (marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law)
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