multicultural
English
Etymology
From multi- + cultural.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic) (file)
Adjective
multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)
- Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
- 31 October 2001, The Guardian:
- 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:
- 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.
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- (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
- 2011, ABC13:
- 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.
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Coordinate terms
- 1, monocultural; 2, bicultural; 3, tricultural; several or many, polycultural
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
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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)
- 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)
- 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.
Adjective
multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)
- multicultural (encompassing several cultures)
Derived terms
- multiculturalidade
- multiculturalismo
Further reading
- “multicultural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
From English multicultural or French multiculturel.
Adjective
multicultural m or n (feminine singular multiculturală, masculine plural multiculturali, feminine and neuter plural multiculturale)
- 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 (plural multiculturales)
- multicultural
- Synonym: pluricultural
Derived terms
- multiculturalidad
- multiculturalismo
Further reading
- “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014