intermarry

English edit

Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -æɹi

Verb edit

intermarry (third-person singular simple present intermarries, present participle intermarrying, simple past and past participle intermarried)

To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion.
Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry.
To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.
Synonym: intramarry
- 2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim‎^[1], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 91–92:
  Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993).

Related terms edit

intermarriage

Translations edit

to marry a member of another group

to marry within the same group

Irish: pós a muintir féin
Italian: imparentarsi, apparentarsi

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Arabic: ^{(please verify)} تَزَاوَجَ (tazāwaja)
Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} eadar-phòs

References edit

“intermarry”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.