intermarriage
intermarriage noun: marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.
Noun
intermarriage (countable and uncountable, plural intermarriages)
- Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.
- During the 1960s, some Georgians opposed the intermarriage of blacks and whites.
- Because whites are by far the nation’s largest racial group, marriage between whites and minorities were the most common type of intermarriage, even though the intermarriage rate for whites is relatively low compared to other races or ethnicities, the study said.
The state where most intermarriages...2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2017
- Synonyms:
- exogamy, extramarriage, heterogamy, mixed marriage, outmarriage
intermarriage meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
intermarriage in Tamil
- கலப்புத் திருமணம், இனக்குழுவுக்குள் திருமணம், நெருங்கிய சொந்தங்களுக்குள் திருமணம்
intermarriage in Urdu
- intermarriage
- ازدواج باہمی izdivāj e bāhamī
intermarriage in Kannada
- ಬೆರೆಕೆ ಮದುವೆ
Examples of intermarriage in a sentence
- These findings indicate that clinicians and religious leaders should not assume that intermarriage constrains levels of intimacy.
- The greatest threat to the survival of the Jewish people today is assimilation and intermarriage.
- In Kangting, Chinese and Tibetans get along quite well, and there is a good deal of intermarriage.
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Forms of intermarriage
| plural | intermarriages |
|---|---|
| alternative form | inter-marriage |
Origin of intermarriage
From inter- + marriage.
Words formed from intermarriage
Questions about intermarriage
- What does intermarriage mean?
- Intermarriage means marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.
- What is intermarriage in Tamil?
- Intermarriage in Tamil is கலப்புத் திருமணம், இனக்குழுவுக்குள் திருமணம், நெருங்கிய சொந்தங்களுக்குள் திருமணம். See Intermarriage meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is intermarriage?
- Intermarriage is a noun.
- What is the plural of intermarriage?
- The plural of intermarriage is intermarriages.
Words near intermarriage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: intermarriage (page history and authors); intermarriage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ازدواج باہمی (Urdu) (page history and authors); intermarriage (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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