intermarriage
[in-ter-mar-ij, in-ter-mar-ij]
- marriage between people of different religions, tribes, castes, ethnicities, or racial groups, as between a white person and a black person or between a Christian and a Muslim.
- marriage between people of different social classes.
- marriage within a specific social or cultural group, as required by custom or law; endogamy.
- marriage between people belonging to the same small group, especially if they are close blood relatives.
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Origin of intermarriage
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
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Contemporary Examples
The 1990 National Jewish Population Survey reported an intermarriage rate of 52 percent among American Jews.
The impact of intermarriage on Jewish engagement is generally negative but especially negative upon attachment to Israel.
Worse, the children of intermarried Jews have a 76% intermarriage rate.
Intermarriage excludes tens of thousands of children from the Jewish people every year.
For their part, many Reform Jews believe that they have addressed the intermarriage problem.
Historical Examples
If we associate with them familiarly, the natural result will be intermarriage.
The Negro and the NationGeorge S. Merriam
The first and the most important is intermarriage within the caste.
India, Its Life and ThoughtJohn P. Jones
Between the two classes there is neither interdining nor intermarriage.
Castes and Tribes of Southern IndiaEdgar Thurston
These religious distinctions are no bar to intermarriage and interdining.
Castes and Tribes of Southern IndiaEdgar Thurston
The three families were perhaps closely connected by intermarriage.
Pompeii, Its Life and ArtAugust Mau
Word Origin and History for intermarriage
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper