INTERMARRIAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intermarriage mean? 

• INTERMARRIAGE (noun)
  The noun INTERMARRIAGE has 2 senses:

1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

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

  Familiarity information: INTERMARRIAGE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERMARRIAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

exogamy; intermarriage

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

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

Derivation:

intermarry (marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group)

Sense 2

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 ("intermarriage" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

intermarry (marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group)

 Context examples 

But the case is this: We are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion that when there has been one intermarriage, she may have less trouble in achieving a second; in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed, if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well, if that's the idea you can count me out. . . . Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)