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acculturates

acculturates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of acculturate.

Meaning of acculturate

Verb

acculturate (third-person singular simple present acculturates, present participle acculturating, simple past and past participle acculturated)

  1. (transitive) To change the culture of (a person) by the influence of another culture, especially a more dominant culture.
  2. (transitive) To cause (a person) to acquire the culture of a society (or of a region, industry, or company), as in the case of children growing up in that culture, immigrants learning that culture, or new hires learning the ropes of a job.
    Synonyms:
    socialize
  3. (intransitive) To be changed by acculturation.

Questions about acculturates

What is acculturates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Acculturates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of acculturate.

Words near acculturates in the dictionary

  1. accultural
  2. acculturalisation
  3. acculturalization
  4. acculturate
  5. acculturated
  6. acculturates
  7. acculturating
  8. acculturation
  9. acculturation model
  10. acculturational
  11. acculturationally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acculturates (page history and authors); acculturate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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