intermarry en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English marry English intermarry From inter- + marry.
Meanings
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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.
The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.
2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2017:
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To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.
Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.
2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2026: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).
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| intermarried | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| intermarried | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| intermarries | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| intermarrying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
intermate · intermarriage · intermarried
Synonyms
Translations (7)
it imparentarsi (to marry a member of another group) · ga pós a muintir féin (to marry within the same group) · ga pós a chéile (to marry a member of another group) · mi moe whakawhitiwhiti (to marry a member of another group) · it imparentarsi (to marry within the same group) · it apparentarsi (to marry within the same group) · it apparentarsi (to marry a member of another group)