INTERMARRIAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does intermarriage mean? • INTERMARRIAGE (noun)
The noun INTERMARRIAGE has 2 senses:
1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
2. marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Familiarity information: INTERMARRIAGE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INTERMARRIAGE (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 ("intermarriage" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
Meaning:
Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
endogamy; inmarriage; intermarriage
Hypernyms ("intermarriage" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
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