| 单词 | hypergamous |
| 释义 | > as lemmashyˈpergamous hyˈpergamous adj. pertaining or relating to hypergamy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [adjective] > marriage to social superior hypergamous1883 1883 D. C. J. Ibbetson Rep. Census Panjáb 1881 I. 356 Mr. Coldstream writes from Hushyárpur:.. For 12 years past certain classes of Khatris..have been agitating to extend the principle of isogamy, and to free themselves from the rule of contracting hypergamous alliances for their daughters. 1929 Encycl. Brit. IV. 979/2 The ancient hypergamous rule which allowed a woman to be married to a man of higher class. 1951 Notes & Queries Anthropol. (ed. 6) ii. iii. 94 Sometimes there is a hypergamous system in which a socially inferior sub-caste can obtain wives from another and higher sub-caste on payment. 1966 New Statesman 15 Apr. 548/2 Hypergamous young men claim that the district [sc. Chelsea] offers more available classy girls than other art-school areas. < as lemmas |
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