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MESALLIANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mesalliance mean?
• MESALLIANCE (noun)
The noun MESALLIANCE has 1 sense:
1. a marriage with a person of inferior social status
Familiarity information: MESALLIANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A marriage with a person of inferior social status
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("mesalliance" is a kind of...):
misalliance (an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage))
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