marrying someone who is not

[Untaught88]

Hi,

Marrying someone who is not from your family/caste. What do you call this kind of marriage? Any specific name?

 

[konungursvia]

You sometimes hear: marrying up, marring down, marrying well.... but we don't have the concept of caste in most places.

 

[Tarheel]

As far I as I know there is no name for that in this country (USA). What do they call it in Pakistan?

 

[tedmc]

In India, you can say "marrying out of one's caste" and "inter-caste marriage".

 

[emsr2d2]

Some people who think this kind of thing is important refer to people marrying someone from another [social] class. I don't know of a word for that kind of marriage.

 

[Matthew Wai]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/letters/18-Feb-2015/inter-family-marriages Inter-family marriages.

 

[BobK]

There is a rarely used word - unlikely to be needed by a student) - for when a member of the royal family (I say the because I‘ve never seen this word used outside the UK [although - now I come to think of it - maybe it was used when Prince Rainier of Monaco married the film-star Grace Kely]) marries a commoner (that‘s a noun by the way, meaning "person who doesn‘t have royal blood"). The adjective morganatic applies to the marriage. The royal partner marries morganatically; I‘m not sure the same could be said of the commoner.

b

PS I‘ve looked this up: it doesn‘t apply only to royal marriages; it‘s just that I‘ve never met it in any other context.

 

[emsr2d2]

That article refers to marrying someone within your own direct family (cousins). That practice ranges from a bad idea to a form of incest.

I was slightly confused by the fact that OP used both marrying someone who is not from your family and someone who is not from your caste. As far as I know, they mean completely different things just about everywhere.

 

[Skrej]

You will sometimes hear 'marry above/below your station', meaning to marry somebody who is from a different social class than yourself.

 

[konungursvia]

There is also the phrase "the subaltern marriage" from the French of the 18th C.... but it's certainly uncommon nowadays.

 

[Barb_D]

Would "a mixed marriage" work in this case?

 

[Matthew Wai]

'mixed marriage
Marriage between persons of different races or religions.'── quoted from The Free Dictionary.

That article refers to marrying someone within your own direct family (cousins).

'Inter-' is a prefix that means 'between or involving two or more different things, places, or people' according to Longman, so I wonder why 'inter-family marriage' refers to one's own direct family in the article.

 

[Tdol]

Marrying out can be used when people marry outside their religion, so I guess it could be applied here.