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to intermarry

to intermarry

4 6.5
To marry someone from the same social group or from a different one
  • verb
  • /ˌɪntərˈmɛri/
translation icon : 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

  • 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?

  • 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

to miscegenate
vsto intermarry
  • Archaic
1 9.9

To marry or live with someone of a different race

focuses on race and historical usage while the other covers any group type
to inmarry
vsto intermarry
  • Archaic
9.8

Marry someone from the same social group, for example the same ethnic or religious group

includes marrying both within the group and between different groups

How Mixed

to intermarry
4 6.5
to inmarry
  • Archaic
9.8

Surface Forms

intermarry infinitive
intermarried past participle
intermarrying present participle
intermarries third person singular

Morphology

intermarry = marry (transparent) = inter + marry

The prefix 'inter-' clearly indicates a mutual or reciprocal action, and the base word 'marry' retains its original meaning.

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.