intermarrying
Speech parts
1. intermarrying - Noun
2. intermarrying - Verb
Meaning
intermarrying
present participle of intermarry
intermarrying (plural intermarryings)
An intermarriage.
Synonyms
Examples
As Branko says, there was a time when Serbs and Croats seemed to get along fairly well, indeed intermarrying at a high rate. But could anyone now put Yugoslavia back together? At this rate, we'll soon be asking the same question about America.
The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying for a long time. But if we did the DNA of everyone in Mexico a whole lot of people would have a whole lot of black in them.
Bowder, editor, Who was Who in the Roman World (1980) at 27. Many native Berbers adopted to the Mediterranean-wide influences operating in the province, eventually intermarrying, or entering into the local aristocracy.
The Irish and Scots were ostracised by the English, ultimately intermarrying with Black and Native American minority groups to create a single demographic (coloured, which in Bermuda included anyone not able to be described as wholly of European ancestry.
Furthermore, because no nearby towns were found from which marriage partners could be drawn, "this spatial separation must have marked two intermarrying kinship groups."
The Boone and Carson families became good friends, working and socializing together, and intermarrying.