multicultural
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)
- Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
- 31 October 2001, The Guardian[1]:
- Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.
- 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times[2]:
- The literary landscape of London is as varied as the city itself. According to the 2011 census, 40 percent of residents identified as “Asian, Black, Mixed or Other.” While this is no multi-culti utopia, it is undeniably an intensely multicultural metropolis where more than 300 languages are spoken.
- (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
- 2011, ABC13[3]:
- Bedgood, whose father is African American and mother is Caucasian, says he's struggling to deal with such hatred. He grew up in Santa Clarita and says he could not have imagined something like this happening in a quiet community with many multicultural families.
Coordinate terms edit
- 1, monocultural; 2, bicultural; 3, tricultural; several or many, polycultural
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- acultural
- aculture
- alethocultural
- alethoculture
- anticultural
- anticulture
- bicultural
- biculture
- countercultural
- counterculture
- demicultural
- demiculture
- ethnocultural
- ethnoculture
- intercultural
- interculture
- intracultural
- intraculture
- metacultural
- metaculture
- monocultural
- monoculture
- multiculture
- noncultural
- nonculture
- pluricultural
- pluriculture
- polycultural
- polyculture
- pseudocultural
- pseudoculture
- quadricultural
- quadriculture
- quasicultural
- quasiculture
- religiocultural
- religioculture
- semicultural
- semiculture
- sociocultural
- socioculture
- subcultural
- subculture
- supercultural
- superculture
- supracultural
- supraculture
- technocultural
- technoculture
- transcultural
- transculture
- tricultural
- triculture
- uncultural
- unculture
- unicultural
- uniculture
Translations edit
relating to several different cultures
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturals)
Further reading edit
- “multicultural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)
- multicultural
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral
Adjective edit
multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)
- multicultural (encompassing several cultures)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English multicultural or French multiculturel. By surface analysis, multi- + cultural.
Adjective edit
multicultural m or n (feminine singular multiculturală, masculine plural multiculturali, feminine and neuter plural multiculturale)
Declension edit
Declension of multicultural
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | multicultural | multiculturală | multiculturali | multiculturale | ||
definite | multiculturalul | multiculturala | multiculturalii | multiculturalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | multicultural | multiculturale | multiculturali | multiculturale | ||
definite | multiculturalului | multiculturalei | multiculturalilor | multiculturalelor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturales)
- multicultural
- Synonym: pluricultural
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014