'Intermarriage' definitions:
Definition of 'intermarriage'
(from WordNet)
noun
Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law [syn: exogamy, intermarriage] [ant: endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage]
noun
Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law [syn: endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage] [ant: exogamy, intermarriage]
Definition of 'Intermarriage'
From: GCIDE
- Intermarriage \In`ter*mar"riage\, n. Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, races, castes, or nations. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intermarriage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a world-without-end bargain,
- alliance,
- bed,
- bond of matrimony,
- bridebed,
- cohabitation,
- conjugal bond,
- conjugal knot,
- coverture,
- holy matrimony,
- holy wedlock,
- husbandhood,
- ill-assorted marriage,
- interracial marriage,
- marriage,
- marriage bed,
- marriage sacrament,
- match,
- matrimonial union,
- matrimony,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- miscegenation,
- mixed marriage,
- nuptial bond,
- sacrament of matrimony,
- spousehood,
- union,
- wedded bliss,
- wedded state,
- weddedness,
- wedding knot,
- wedlock,
- wifehood