Definition

1. Verb:
   • To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group: The act of marrying someone from the same social, ethnic, religious, or familial category as oneself.
   • To become connected by marriage between groups or families: Describes the process by which two distinct groups, families, or communities form marital alliances with each other.

Usage and Examples

• Verb:
  • For centuries, the two royal families would intermarry to strengthen their political alliances.
  • Some communities historically did not intermarry with outsiders to preserve their cultural traditions.
  • The law once prohibited people of different races from marrying, forcing them to intermarry within their own group.

Advanced Usage

• "to intermarry with": To marry into a specific group.
  • Over generations, the immigrant community began to intermarry with the local population.
• Concept of Intermarriage (noun form): The state or practice of intermarrying.
  • The intermarriage between the two clans ended a long-standing feud.

Variants and Related Words

• Intermarriage (n): The act or an instance of intermarrying.
  • The rate of intermarriage has increased in modern societies.
• Intermarried (adj): Describing groups or individuals connected by intermarriage.
  • The intermarried families shared many cultural practices.

Synonyms

• Marry within: To choose a spouse from one's own group.
• Endogamy (n, technical): The social practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste, or ethnic group.

Antonyms

• Exogamy (n, technical): The social practice of marrying outside a specific social group, clan, or tribe.
• Marry out: To marry someone from a different group.

Verb

1. marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group