'Mixed marriage' definitions:
Definition of 'mixed marriage'
(from WordNet)
noun
Marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures; "the families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove"
Definition of 'Mixed marriage'
From: GCIDE
- Mixed \Mixed\, a. Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i. [1913 Webster]
- Mixed action (Law), a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action.
- Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle.
- Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin.
- Mixed marriage, a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant.
- Mixed number, a whole number and a fraction taken together.
- Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars.
- Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mixed marriage'
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,
- intermarriage,
- interracial marriage,
- marriage,
- marriage bed,
- marriage sacrament,
- match,
- matrimonial union,
- matrimony,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- miscegenation,
- nuptial bond,
- sacrament of matrimony,
- spousehood,
- union,
- wedded bliss,
- wedded state,
- weddedness,
- wedding knot,
- wedlock,
- wifehood