neolocaladj.

1949 G. P. Murdock Social Struct. i. 16 When a newly wedded couple, as in our own society, establishes a domicile independent of the location of the parental home of either partner..residence may be called neolocal.

1958 F. M. Keesing Cultural Anthropol. x. 264 The married couple may.., as in the modern urban society, set up a home apart from the parents of both: neolocal (new-place).

1977 M. E. Spiro Kinship & Marriage in Burma iii. 57 Because residence in Burma is typically neolocal, the nuclear family..is transformed in the course of the domestic cycle from a domestic or residential group to a dispersed group.

1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 297 The movement of the bride to take up residence with her husband in his father's home (virilocal residence) or in a new location (neolocal).

1967 J. Deetz Invitation to Archaeol. 95 We Americans reside neolocally, apart from both parents.

1998 G. A. Ruf Cadres & Kin ii. 45 Some of his descendants denied vehemently that he had married uxorilocally, asserting, rather, that the couple had lived on their own, neolocally, in a separate residence.