intermarriage

(noun)

noun

1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

Similar word(s): exogamy

Definition categories: state, marriage, matrimony, union, wedlock

2. marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law

Similar word(s): endogamy

Definition categories: state, marriage, matrimony, union, wedlock

Sentences with intermarriage as a noun:

- During the 1960s, some Georgians opposed the intermarriage of blacks and whites.