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INMARRIAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inmarriage mean?
• INMARRIAGE (noun)
The noun INMARRIAGE has 1 sense:
1. marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Familiarity information: INMARRIAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
endogamy; inmarriage; intermarriage
Hypernyms ("inmarriage" is a kind of...):
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))
Derivation:
inmarry (marry within one's own tribe or group)
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