outmarriage en · NOUN
Etymology
From out- + marriage; compare exogamy.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
While most of the outmarriages in the Korean community involving whites were between Korean females and Caucasian males, the gender roles were occasionally reversed.
2000, Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaiʻi, 1903-1973:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| outmarriages | Number=Plur | lexicographic |