group marriage


noun
  1. (among primitive peoples) a form of marriage in which a group of males is united with a group of females to form a single conjugal unit.

Origin of group marriage

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

Words Nearby group marriage

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How to use group marriage in a sentence

  • There is also, of course, a form of group-marriage that differs from 'Pirrauru marriage,' and is apparently simpler.

  • Even in Australia the phenomena of Pirrauru and of group-marriage are confined particularly to the southern regions.

  • But Mr. Howitt notes other practices which are taken by him to be mere rudimentary survivals of "group marriage."

  • That is the opinion of believers in "the primary undivided horde," and in "group marriage," or rather "status marriage."

  • That scholar was a warm partisan of the primeval horde, of group marriage, and (at times) of a reformatory movement.

British Dictionary definitions for group marriage

group marriage

noun
  1. an arrangement in which several males live together with several females, forming a conjugal unit

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