multicultural
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From multiculture + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
Adjective
[edit]multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)
- 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.
- (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
[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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral
Adjective
[edit]multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)
- multicultural (encompassing several cultures)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “multicultural”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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]| 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
[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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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