mixed marriages
Spouses from different backgrounds
Mixed marriages are unions between people of different racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural backgrounds.
The term appears most often in discussions of interracial or interfaith couples: Her parents disapproved of mixed marriages.
The phrase can carry a dated or disapproving tone, as it emphasizes difference rather than simply describing a couple.
- nuptialsVows and rings
- spouseMarried partner
- wedlockState of being spouses
- unionJoining into one
- brideWoman getting married
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- mixed marriagesinterracial couples, dual heritage
- multiculturalismmulticultural, multiethnic, ethnic diversity, diverse, pluralism
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