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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures; "the families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1699 a marriage between persons of different races or religions

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mixed Mixed, a. Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i. Mixed action (Law), a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action. Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle. Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin. Mixed marriage, a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. Mixed number, a whole number and a fraction taken together. Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars. Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mixed marriages) A mixed marriage is a marriage between two people who are not of the same race or religion. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

a world-without-end bargain, alliance, bed, bond of matrimony, bridebed, cohabitation, conjugal bond, conjugal knot, coverture, holy matrimony, holy wedlock, husbandhood, ill-assorted marriage, intermarriage, interracial marriage, marriage, marriage bed, marriage sacrament, match, matrimonial union, matrimony, mesalliance, misalliance, miscegenation, nuptial bond, sacrament of matrimony, spousehood, union, wedded bliss, wedded state, weddedness, wedding knot, wedlock, wifehood