Meaning

2 senses

  1. 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.

    marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group

  2. To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. They intermarried with Berbers.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

intermarries, intermarrying, intermarried, intermarried
Base formintermarry · to intermarry
3rd person singularintermarries
Present participleintermarrying
Past simpleintermarried
Past participleintermarried

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyintermarry
he, she, itintermarries

Past simpleLesson

all personsintermarried

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave intermarried
he, she, ithas intermarried

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill intermarry

Synonyms

1 synonyms
intramarry

Word family

3 related words
Relatedintermarriageintermate
Derivedintermarrier

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
interlockinterlocutorinterloperintermediaryC2intermediateB1
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