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outmarriage

outmarriage noun: marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.

Noun

outmarriage (countable and uncountable, plural outmarriages)

  1. Marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
    • While most of the outmarriages in the Korean community involving whites were between Korean females and Caucasian males, the gender roles were occasionally reversed.2000, Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaiʻi, 1903-1973

Antonyms of outmarriage

Forms of outmarriage

pluraloutmarriages

Origin of outmarriage

From out- + marriage; compare exogamy.

Questions about outmarriage

What does outmarriage mean?
Outmarriage means marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
What part of speech is outmarriage?
Outmarriage is a noun.
What is the plural of outmarriage?
The plural of outmarriage is outmarriages.

Words near outmarriage in the dictionary

  1. outmarketed
  2. outmarketing
  3. outmarkets
  4. outmarking
  5. outmarks
  6. outmarriage
  7. outmarriages
  8. outmarried
  9. outmarries
  10. outmarry
  11. outmarrying

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