hypergamy

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ -gamy.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /haɪˈpɚɡəmi/

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Noun

hypergamy (usually uncountable, plural hypergamies)

1. Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself.
   • 2012 February 11, Stephanie Coontz, “The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     From 1940 to the mid-1970s, the tendency for men to marry down educationally became more pronounced and the cultural ideal of hypergamy — that women must marry up — became more insistent.

Synonyms

• marrying up (colloquial expression)

Antonyms

• hypogamy

Related terms

• hypergamic
• hypergamical
• hypergamically
• hypergamist
• hypergamous
• hypergamously
• hypergyny

Translations

hypergamy

• Chinese:

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• Danish: hypergami n
• Dutch: hypergamie f
• Finnish: hypergamia (fi)
• French: hypergamie (fr) f
• Galician: hipergamia f
• German: Hypergamie f, Hinaufheiraten n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hypergami n

  Nynorsk: hypergami n

• Polish: hipergamia (pl) f
• Portuguese: hipergamia f
• Russian: гипергамия (gipergamija)
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hipergamia (es) f
• Swedish: hypergami c