intermarriage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   marriage between people from different racial, ethnic, religious, social, or national groups

   Intermarriage gradually strengthened ties between the two communities.

2. 2
   noun

   repeated marriage between members of two families or groups

   Generations of intermarriage connected the region's leading families.

Formed from inter- ("between, among") + marriage. Unlike endogamy, which confines marriage to a group, intermarriage commonly emphasizes unions across group boundaries or recurring unions between particular families.

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