amalgamation
/əˌmælɡəˈmeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The intermarriage and interbreeding of different ethnicities or races.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In 1908 Sheng obtained imperial approval for the amalgamation of the Hanyang Ironworks and the Ta-yeh and P'ing-hsiang mines to form the Han-Yeh-P'ing Coal and Iron Company Limited (Han-Yeh-P'ing mei-t'ieh ch'ang-k'uang yu-hsien kung-ssu)."
- "There was, however, one proposal which, had it reached fruition, might have had far-reaching effects. This was for the amalgamation of the Caledonian, the Edinburgh & Glasgow, and the Scottish Central Railways, for which a Bill was promoted, but rejected by the Parliamentary Committee on the grounds that the preamble was not proved."
- "All the circumstances of William, on the great house farm, show him to have occupied a different position from the other slaves, and, certainly, there is nothing in the supposed hostility of slaveholders to amalgamation, to forbid the supposition that William Wilks was the son of Edward Lloyd."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin amalgamātiō.
Word Breakdown
- Root: amalgamātiō