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acculturations

acculturations is the plural of acculturation.

Meaning of acculturation

Noun

acculturation (countable and uncountable, plural acculturations)

  1. A process by which the culture of a society changes on contact with a different one.
    • It would be difficult to designate the Ghost Dance of the Indians of North America, for instance, as anything but a phenomenon of acculturation; […].1958, Melville J. Herskovits, Acculturation, Peter Smith, page 12
  2. A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth.

Questions about acculturations

What is acculturations the plural of?
Acculturations is the plural of acculturation.

Words near acculturations in the dictionary

  1. acculturation model
  2. acculturational
  3. acculturationally
  4. acculturationist
  5. acculturationists
  6. acculturations
  7. acculturative
  8. acculture
  9. accultured
  10. accultures
  11. acculturing

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