ethnogamy
ethnogamy noun: endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
Noun
ethnogamy (uncountable)
- Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
- For convenience, this plane and the mode of marriage defining it may, in special allusion to the correlative race-sense, be styled ethnogamy; and the more systematic characters of this mode and plane of marriage may be outlined briefly:1898, W. J. McGee, The Seri Indians, Government Printing Office, page 284
- The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy.1977, Karigoudar Ishwaran, Family Kinship and Community: A Study of Dutch Canadians: a Developmental Approach, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, page 149
Origin of ethnogamy
From ethno- + -gamy.
Words formed from ethnogamy
- ethnogamic
Questions about ethnogamy
- What does ethnogamy mean?
- Ethnogamy means endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
- What part of speech is ethnogamy?
- Ethnogamy is a noun.
Words near ethnogamy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ethnogamy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “ethnogamy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ethnogamy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.