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Meaning of "hypergamy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPERGAMY

From hyper- + -gamy.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPERGAMY

hypergamy  [haɪˈpɜːɡəmɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPERGAMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypergamy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPERGAMY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hypergamy

Hypergamy is the act or practice of marrying someone of higher caste or status than oneself. Although the term is not gendered, it is generally used by social scientists to refer to women marrying higher-status men, rather than to men marrying higher-status women. The word "hypogamy" typically refers to instances of the inverse occurring: marrying a person of lower social class or status.

Definition of hypergamy in the English dictionary

The definition of hypergamy in the dictionary is a custom that forbids a woman to marry a man of lower social status. Other definition of hypergamy is any marriage with a partner of higher social status.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPERGAMY


agami
ˈæɡəmɪ
autoallogamy
ˌɔːtəʊəˈlɒɡəmɪ
autogamy
ɔːˈtɒɡəmɪ
bigamy
ˈbɪɡəmɪ
cryptogamy
krɪpˈtɒɡəmɪ
endogamy
ɛnˈdɒɡəmɪ
exogamy
ɛkˈsɒɡəmɪ
hercogamy
hɜːˈkɒɡəmɪ
hologamy
həʊˈlɒɡəmɪ
homogamy
hɒˈmɒɡəmɪ
karyogamy
ˌkærɪˈɒɡəmɪ
misogamy
mɪˈsɒɡəmɪ
monogamy
mɒˈnɒɡəmɪ
pangamy
ˈpænɡəmɪ
pantagamy
pænˈtæɡəmɪ
plastogamy
plæsˈtɒɡəmɪ
polygamy
pəˈlɪɡəmɪ
porogamy
pɔːˈrɒɡəmɪ
syngamy
ˈsɪŋɡəmɪ
zoogamy
zəʊˈɒɡəmɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPERGAMY

hyperextend
hyperextension
hyperextension-hyperflexion injury
hyperfastidious
hyperfine structure
hyperfocal
hyperfocal distance
hyperfunction
hyperfunctional
hypergamous
hypergeometric
hyperglycaemia
hyperglycaemic
hyperglycemia
hyperglycemic
hypergol
hypergolic
hypergolically
hyperhidroses
hyperhidrosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPERGAMY

allogamy
anisogamy
apogamy
chalazogamy
chasmogamy
cleistogamy
clistogamy
deuterogamy
dichogamy
digamy
geitonogamy
heterogamy
isogamy
oogamy
plasmogamy
serial monogamy
thingamy
trigamy
xenogamy

Synonyms and antonyms of hypergamy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypergamy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPERGAMY

Find out the translation of hypergamy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hypergamy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypergamy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hypergamy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipergamia
570 millions of speakers

English

hypergamy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hypergamy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hypergamy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hypergamy
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hipergamia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমান ঘরে অথবা উচ্চ শ্রেণী বা জাতিতে বিবাহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypergamie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hypergamy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hypergamy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hypergamy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hypergamy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hypergamy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hypergamy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சம அந்தஸ்து உள்ளவர்களிடையே மணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हायपरगिमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hypergamy
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hypergamy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hypergamy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hypergamy
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hypergamy
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hypergamy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hypergamy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypergamy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypergamy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypergamy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPERGAMY»

The term «hypergamy» is normally little used and occupies the 146.781 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPERGAMY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hypergamy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hypergamy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypergamy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERGAMY»

Discover the use of hypergamy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypergamy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Indian Sociology Through Ghurye, a Dictionary
Hypergamous Sentiment [ 1 [ Hypergamy, as tradtionally defmed, is the custom of 'marrying upwards' from the woman's side; i.e, of seeking a spouse from a group higher than her own. The sentiment behind hypergamy, which confers status ...
S. Devadas Pillai, 1997
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Cross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational ...
Paradoxes of Global Hypergamy As noted above, marriage mobility commonly involves the movement of brides from more remote and less developed locations to increasingly developed and less isolated ones, and globally from the poor and  ...
Nicole Constable, 2011
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Hypergamy
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Kn Tr Benoit, 2012
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Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, ...
One problem with the notion of hypergamy, as it has often been used, is that it fails to ask on any but the broadest level of social and cultural generalization how “up” might be defined differently according to one's social position. In many older  ...
Nicole Constable, 2003
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Intermarriage in the United States
This process is one of class hypergamy rather than caste hypergamy. Mcrton ( 1941:372) has added support to the theoretical position that black-white intermarriage can be expected to conform to a class hypergamous pattern. Mcrton would ...
Gary A. Cretser, Joseph J. Leon, 1982
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Hypergamy: Eligible Bachelor, Evolutionary Psychology, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
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Marriage and Rank in Bengali Culture: A History of Caste and ...
Marriage : Hypergamy and Hypogamy Need Not Transform Rank We turn now to a discussion of the two forms of marriage associated with differences in family or clan rank and known in the anthropological literature as hypergamy and ...
Ronald B. Inden, 1976
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Caste and Kinship in Kangra
the critical feature by which hypergamy should be defined. North Indian hypergamy is a kind of mirror image of the hypogamy of the Kachins, not simply in the obvious sense that in the one case the woman marries 'up' while in the other case ...
Jonathan P. Parry, Professor of Anthropology Jonathan P Parry, PhD, 2013
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The Structure of Indian Society: Then and Now
In hypergamy, a woman of a lower caste married a man of an upper caste, but the latter did not reciprocate. In hypogamy it was the reverse. Almost every large caste used to have internal hypergamy related to its internal hierarchy. Internal ...
A. M. Shah, 2012
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Female Infanticide in India: A Feminist Cultural History
The implication of Srinivas' statement is that there is a causal relationship between British colonialism and the ceiling on hypergamy as an upward mobility for the Rajputs. Alice Clark's (1989) analysis of the practice of Jhareja Rajput ...
Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Reena Dube, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERGAMY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypergamy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hinkle: Rubio's case refutes social conservatives
Phyllis Schlafly continues to insist well into her 90s that women should not be seeking equality with men and that hypergamy is what makes ... «Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jun 15»
2
Men's rights fanatics defend Iowa mall shooter fired for sexual …
Add to that the social ramifications of unrestrained and optimized hypergamy, what you get is men with nowhere to turn. That masculine energy ... «Raw Story, Jun 15»
3
“Woman in Full:” Tom Wolfe's Female Characters
William Crooke and Sir Herbert Risley, two 19th-century English social scientists, coined the term “hypergamy” to describe their observations of ... «VDARE.com, Jun 15»
4
CRB: Woman in full
Anton points to Wolfe's consistent and penetrating understanding of what social scientists call hypergamy, the deceptively simple observation ... «Power Line, Jun 15»
5
Royal faltering of young scribes and delusions of grandeur
This interesting inversion of the rules of hypergamy, we understand, continues to the present day in the alliance planned for the young ... «Bangalore Mirror, May 15»
6
Equal pay bill allows employees to discuss pay without retaliation
-Far more women than men seek spouses with a high net-worth (hypergamy) -Far more single women than single men ask prospective dates, ... «News10.net, May 15»
7
Gender Pay Gap Cookie Sale at MSUB
-Far more women than men seek spouses with a high net-worth (hypergamy) -Far more single women than single men ask prospective dates, ... «KULR-TV, Apr 15»
8
A look ahead at the New America, after the gender wars
In such a world fewer women will be able to marry up (aka hypergamy) as the balance of power shifts in their favor, putting further stress on the ... «The Fabius Maximus website, Apr 15»
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The new women warriors: Reviving the fight for equal rights
And she talked about hypergamy, the notion of marrying up, saying if a man doesn't earn as much as a woman, it is a “deterrent to marriage.”. «Gant Daily, Apr 15»
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Scrambled eggs
It describes the horrors of miscegenation, of hypergamy and hypogamy (f***ing up and f***ing down), more elegantly called anulomyena (with ... «Hindu Business Line, Mar 15»

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