to intermarry
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6.5
- verb
- /ˌɪntərˈmɛri/
:
casarse entre sí
- In 1990, Japanese-Americans intermarried at 40.6% and Native Americans at 53.7% (Foeman & Nance, 1999).
- intermarried American
- intermarried women
- intermarried American Indians
Examples
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Demographic advantage afforded women the luxury of intermarrying only when such matches appeared to improve their condition.
Academic text (2003) -
As of 1995, Jews intermarried at a rate of over 52%.
Academic text (2005) -
Some of them grew up in intermarried families.
Academic text (2018) -
Example: The Spanish intermarried with the Native Americans and taught them their way of life.
Academic text (1991) -
Don't expect their beliefs to change when they start to intermarry with Western women either.
Blog text (12) -
Do you know that 72% of modern Jews are intermarrying, by the way?
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The total number of Jewish adults now intermarried is 31 percent, he said.
Blog text (18) -
The French, in fact, intermarried with the Cuna as theirs was a colonization without European women.
Academic text (1991) -
The members of nearby Teenek hamlets are indeed intermarried and linked by bonds of kinship.
Academic text (2008) -
Many cultures around the world have a history of intermarrying to strengthen social ties.
Synonyms
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9.9
To marry or live with someone of a different race
Marry someone from the same social group, for example the same ethnic or religious group
How Mixed
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6.5
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intermarry comes from two parts: inter- meaning 'between' and marry meaning 'to become husband and wife'. So it means to 'marry between' groups, to join people from different families, communities, or races by marriage.