mixed marriage

American  

noun

1. a marriage between persons of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups, as between a Black person and a white person or between a Christian and a Jew.

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mixed marriage British  

noun

1. a marriage between persons of different races or religions

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mixed marriage Cultural  

1. Marriage between two people who come from different cultural, national, racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds. Often, such marriages must withstand the scrutiny of both partners' families and social communities.

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Etymology

Origin of mixed marriage

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

“We really don’t know why we were targeted – it could be because they wanted the house or the fact we are in a mixed marriage and it’s because of religion,” she said.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

He is Sunni and she is Shia, a mixed marriage that might have offended extremists.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

It’s a mixed marriage of new forms and old that captures modern life then shapes it into something artistically abiding.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2020

I note with interest the color-blind casting, which produces a post-racial turn-of-the-last-century Midwest Mississippi River town where a mixed marriage is not a remarkable thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2019

I am the product of a mixed marriage.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg