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intermarry

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English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ marry.

Pronunciation

Verb

intermarry (third-person singular simple present intermarries, present participle intermarrying, simple past and past participle intermarried)

  1. To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion.
    Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry.
    • 2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN‎:
      The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.
  2. 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, 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).
    • 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV‎:
      Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.

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