hypergamy

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /haɪˈpɚɡəmi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Act or practice of seeking a spouse of higher socioeconomic status or caste status than oneself. uncountable,usually
    — 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.

词形变化

hypergamies plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English -gamy
English hypergamy
From hyper- + -gamy.
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