Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ethnogamy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ethnogamy
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For convenience, this plane and the mode of marriage defining it may, in special allusion to the correlative race-sense, be styled ethnogamy; and the more systematic characters of this mode and plane of marriage may be outlined briefly:"
"The marriage pattern in Holland Marsh may be described as ethnic endogamy, or ethnogamy."
"I have chosen ethnogamy as one of the dependent variables because the choice of a marriage mate is one of the measures of cultural perseverance:"

Etymology

From ethno- + -gamy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: ethno
Suffix: gamy

Usage

Uncountable

Derived Forms

ethnogamic

Questions

What does ethnogamy mean?: Endogamy specific to ethnicity; the social practice of marriage restricted to one's own ethnicity.
Where does ethnogamy come from?: From ethno- + -gamy.

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