English

Noun

outmarriage ‎(countable and uncountable, plural outmarriages)

1. Marrying outside one’s own ethnic, religious, or social group.
   • 2000, Wayne Patterson, The Ilse: First-generation Korean Immigrants in Hawaiʻi, 1903-1973

     While most of the outmarriages in the Korean community involving whites were between Korean females and Caucasian males, the gender roles were occasionally reversed.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:intermarriage

Antonyms

• inmarriage
• See also Wikisaurus:intermarriage