mixed marriage

3 definitions found

mixed marriage - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mixed \Mixed\, a.
     Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t.
     & i.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Mixed action (Law), a suit combining the properties of a
        real and a personal action.
  
     Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle.
  
     Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more
        kinds of fiber, as a poplin.
  
     Mixed marriage, a marriage between persons of different
        races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman
        Catholic and a Protestant.
  
     Mixed number, a whole number and a fraction taken together.
        
  
     Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and
        freight cars.
  
     Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females
        united in the same performance.
        [1913 Webster]

mixed marriage - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mixed marriage
      n 1: marriage of two people from different races or different
           religions or different cultures; "the families of both
           partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove"

mixed marriage - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "mixed marriage":
     a world-without-end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony,
     bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture,
     holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage,
     intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed,
     marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony,
     mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, nuptial bond,
     sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss,
     wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood