Definition of endogamies Endogamies
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What does endogamies mean?
Part of speech
🔤- endogamies, noun, plural of endogamy.
WordNet
NounPlural: endogamies |
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| endogamy - marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | ||
| intermarriage, inmarriage | ||
| spousal relationship, wedlock, matrimony, marriage, union the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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endogamy
Marriage within a particular group in accordance with custom or law. -
endogamy
Breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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endogamy
en-dog′am-i, n. the custom forbidding a man to marry any woman who is not of his kindred.—adj. Endog′amous. [Gr. endon, within, gamos, marriage.]
Part of speech
🔤- endogamy, noun, singular of endogamies.
