ENDOGAMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endogamy mean? 

• ENDOGAMY (noun)
  The noun ENDOGAMY has 1 sense:

1. marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law

  Familiarity information: ENDOGAMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOGAMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

endogamy; inmarriage; intermarriage

Hypernyms ("endogamy" is a kind of...):

marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))

Antonym:

exogamy (marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law)

Derivation:

endogamous (pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe)