Endogamy – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
endogamy
n.
practice of marrying only within one's particular group or tribe
Endogamy
Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific
ethnic group, class, or
social group, rejecting others on such a basis as being unsuitable for marriage or for other close personal relationships.
endogamy
Noun
1. marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law
(synonym) intermarriage, inmarriage
(antonym) exogamy, intermarriage
(hypernym) marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock
Endogamy
(n.)
Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man in his choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed to exogamy.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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