intermarry
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æɹi
Verb
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.
- 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
Translations
to marry a member of another group
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to marry within the same group
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See also
References
- “intermarry”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.