multicultural

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ culture +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/

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Adjective

multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)

1. Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.

   Coordinate terms: monocultural (1), bicultural (2), tricultural (3)

   Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)

   • 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.

2. (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.

Derived terms

• multicult
• multiculti
• multiculturalise
• multiculturalism
• multiculturalist
• multiculturalistic
• multiculturality
• multiculturalize
• Multicultural London English
• multiculturally
• multicultural Marxism

 

Related terms

• 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

relating to several different cultures

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բազմամշակութային (bazmamšakutʻayin)
• Belarusian: мультыкульту́рны (mulʹtykulʹtúrny)
• Bulgarian: междукултурен m (meždukulturen)
• Catalan: multicultural
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多元文化的 (duōyuán wénhuà de)

• Czech: multikulturní
• Danish: flerkulturell, multikulturell
• Dutch: multicultureel (nl), multiculturele (nl)
• Finnish: monikulttuurinen (fi)
• French: multiculturel (fr)
• Galician: multicultural m or f
• German: multikulturell (de), multikulti (de), multi-kulti, Multikulti-, Multikultur-
• Greek: πολυπολιτισμικός (el) (polypolitismikós)
• Hungarian: multikulturális (hu)
• Indonesian: multikultural (id)
• Irish: ilchultúrtha
• Italian: multiculturale
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: мультимәдени (multimädeni)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: мултику́лтурен (multikúlturen), повеќеку́лтурен (poveḱekúlturen)
• Norman: multitchultuthel (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: máŋggakultuvrralaš
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flerkulturell, multikulturell

  Nynorsk: fleirkulturell, multikulturell

• Occitan: pluricultural
• Polish: wielokulturowy (pl), multikulturowy, multikulti (pl)
• Portuguese: multicultural (pt)
• Romanian: multicultural
• Russian: мультикульту́рный (ru) (mulʹtikulʹtúrnyj), относя́щийся к ра́зным культу́рам (otnosjáščijsja k ráznym kulʹtúram), многокульту́рный (mnogokulʹtúrnyj)
• Spanish: multicultural (es)
• Swedish: mångkulturell (sv), multikulturell (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çokkültürlü
• Ukrainian: мультикульту́рний (mulʹtykulʹtúrnyj), багатокульту́рний (bahatokulʹtúrnyj)
• Vietnamese: đa văn hóa

Catalan

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˌmul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturals)

1. multicultural

Further reading

• “multicultural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Adjective

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)

1. multicultural

Derived terms

• multiculturalidade
• multiculturalismo

Further reading

• “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Portuguese

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /muw.t͡ʃi.kuw.tuˈɾaw/ [muʊ̯.t͡ʃi.kuʊ̯.tuˈɾaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal/ [muɫ.ti.kuɫ.tuˈɾaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal/ [muɫ.ti.kuɫ.tuˈɾaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.kul.tuˈɾa.li/ [muɫ.ti.kuɫ.tuˈɾa.li]

• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)

1. multicultural (encompassing several cultures)

Derived terms

• multiculturalidade
• multiculturalismo

Further reading

• “multicultural”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English multicultural or French multiculturel. By surface analysis, multi- +‎ cultural.

Adjective

multicultural m or n (feminine singular multiculturală, masculine plural multiculturali, feminine and neuter plural multiculturale)

1. multicultural

Declension

Declension of multicultural

		singular			plural
		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

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /multikultuˈɾal/ [mul̪.t̪i.kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral

Adjective

multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturales)

1. multicultural

   Synonym: pluricultural

Derived terms

• multiculturalidad
• multiculturalismo

 

Further reading

• “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014