Usually means: Marrying outside one's social group.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word exogamy:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. exogamy: Merriam-Webster
  2. exogamy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exogamy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exogamy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exogamy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exogamy, exogamy: Wordnik
  7. exogamy: Wiktionary
  8. exogamy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. exogamy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. exogamy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. exogamy: Dictionary.com
  12. exogamy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Exogamy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Exogamy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. exogamy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. exogamy: Rhymezone
  17. Exogamy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. exogamy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. exogamy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exogamy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exogamy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. exogamy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. exogamy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  4. exogamy: Anthropological Terms
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See exogamic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (exogamy)

noun:  marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law
noun:  (biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes

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