intermarry

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ marry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æɹi

Verb

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

1. 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.

2. 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

• intermarriage

Translations

to marry a member of another group

• Irish: pós a chéile
• Italian: imparentarsi (it), apparentarsi
• Maori: moe whakawhitiwhiti

to marry within the same group

• Irish: pós a muintir féin
• Italian: imparentarsi (it), apparentarsi

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Translations to be checked

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

See also

• intermarried
• intermate

References

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