multicultural

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌltʃəɹəl/

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Adjective

multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)

1. 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.

2. (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
   • 2011, ABC13‎^[2]:

     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

 

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 (bazmamšakutʿayin)
• 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
• Irish: ilchultúrtha
• Italian: multiculturale

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: мультимәдени (mwlʹtïmädenï)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: multitchultuthel (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: máŋggakultuvrralaš
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flerkulturell, multikulturell

  Nynorsk: fleirkulturell, multikulturell

• Occitan: pluricultural
• Polish: wielokulturowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: multicultural
• Romanian: multicultural
• Russian: мультикульту́рный (ru) (mulʹtikulʹtúrnyj), относя́щийся к ра́зным культу́рам (otnosjáščijsja k ráznym kulʹtúram)
• Spanish: multicultural (es)
• Swedish: mångkulturell (sv), multikulturell (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çokkültürlü
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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Catalan

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

multicultural (masculine and feminine plural multiculturals)

1. multicultural

Further reading

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

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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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Adjective

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais, comparable)

1. multicultural (encompassing several cultures)

Derived terms

• multiculturalidade
• multiculturalismo

Further reading

• “multicultural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Romanian

Etymology

From English multicultural or French multiculturel.

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From multi- +‎ cultural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /multikultuˈɾal/, [mul̪.t̪i.kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]

Adjective

multicultural (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