mixed marriage

Marriage between two people who come from different cultural, national, racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds. Often, such marriages must withstand the scrutiny of both partners' families and social communities.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures

The term mixed marriage originated in Roman Catholicism, where it refers to a marriage between a Catholic and a non-Catholic. It may refer to:

• Intermarriage
  • Cultural exogamy
  • Cultural assimilation
• Interracial marriage
• Interreligious marriage, also called interfaith marriage
• Lavender marriage
• Marital conversion — religious conversion based on marriage.
• Transnational marriage
• Mixed-orientation marriage — a type of opposite-sex marriage involving spouses who do not have the same sexual orientation
• Miscegenation

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