intermarry

From inter- + marry.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi/

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• Rhymes: -æɹi

intermarry (third-person singular simple present intermarries, present participle intermarrying, simple past and past participle intermarried)

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.

   • 2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 March 2017:

     The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.

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

   Synonym: intramarry

   • 2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim‎^[2], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 91–92:

     Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993).

   • 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV‎^[3], archived from the original on 12 January 2026:

     Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.

• intermarriage

• intermarried
• intermate

• “intermarry”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.