intermarriage
2
5.8
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈmɛrɪdʒ/
:
endogamia
- At different points in Japanese history, intermarriage has become an important marker of this national aspiration.
- intermarriage rate
- estimates of intermarriage
- result of intermarriage
Examples
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Interview reports suggest a higher rate of intermarriage than the household registers do.
Academic text (2001) -
All villages have some sort of relationships with other villages based on visiting, intermarriage, or trade.
Academic text (1992) -
Trade association officials note, however, that intermarriage between Thais and Chinese has increased over the past fifty years.
Academic text (1993) -
Both birth rates and intermarriage are used as measures of women's social integration, cultural change, or assimilation.
Academic text (1991) -
Interview reports and household registers agree that some intermarriage between Han and plains Aborigines occurred.
Academic text (2001) -
Similarly, intermarriage is extensive now: about one-third of American and European Jews today are marrying non-Jewish spouses.
Academic text (1993) -
Class affiliation is nominally by descent, despite frequent intermarriage between nobles and their ex-slaves.
Academic text (1992) -
By the mid-eighteenth century, intermarriage among these middling clans had created a dense web of family alliances that transcended town boundaries.
Academic text (2005) -
In many cultures, intermarriage is encouraged to strengthen bonds between different communities.
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The festival celebrates the rich traditions that arise from intermarriage among local tribes.
Synonyms
The custom of marrying only people from your own group, like your tribe or community
To marry only people from the same social group, tribe, or community
Choosing a partner with a similar social or cultural background
Antonyms
How Endogamous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intermarriage breaks into inter- 'between' and marriage 'joining in marriage', as in international. A helpful way to remember this sense — marrying within a group as a custom — is to think of the community arranging marriages 'between' its own members to keep its traditions.