Intermarriage

noun

noun ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage. countable, uncountable

    "During the 1960s, some Georgians opposed the intermarriage of blacks and whites."

  2. 2
    marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law wordnet
  3. 3
    marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law wordnet

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Example

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"The Jim Crow laws, which were in effect from the 1880s to the 1960s, were state and local mandates that enforced racial segregation in the American South. The most common types of these laws outlawed intermarriage and required businesses and public institutions to separate their black and white patrons."

Etymology

From inter- + marriage.

Related phrases

mixed marriage

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