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bicultural

Syllables: bi·cul·tur·al/baɪˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/US/baɪˈkəlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

bicultural adjective: adapted to two separate cultures.

Adjective

bicultural (comparative more bicultural, superlative most bicultural)

  1. Adapted to two separate cultures.
    • [W]ithout English, I would not be how I am: a bilingual and bicultural person at home in both English and Japanese.2003, Yasuko Kanno, “Preface”, in Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees betwixt Two Worlds, Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, published 2009, →DOI, →ISBN
    • Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents. These misguided notions are propagated, for the most part, devoid of any systematic analysis that directly...2006, Antonia Darder, “Foreword”, in Edward M. Olivos, The Power of Parents: A Critical Perspective of Bicultural Parent Involvement in Public Schools (Counterpoints; 290), New York, N.Y....

Noun

bicultural (plural biculturals)

  1. A person belonging to two cultures.
    • Compared with ethnic affirmers, biculturals are better educated; have higher incomes, socioeconomic status, and self-esteem; and are more involved in local social networks.2013 October, Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, “Diaspora Marketing”, in Harvard Business Review, Brighton: Harvard Business Publishing, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2022
    • Persons without a migratory background may also have a transcultural identity—and not everybody who is confronted with at least two cultures is automatically supposed to have a transcultural identity[…]. Thus, biculturals do not necessarily have a transcultural identity.2015 August 29, Miriam A. Knauss, Kristina Günther, Sophie Belardi, Pauline Morley, Ulrike von Lersner, “The Impact of Perceived Ethnic Discrimination on Mental Health Depends on Transcultural...

Examples of bicultural in a sentence

  • Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents.2006, Antonia Darder, “Foreword”, in Edward M. Olivos, The Power of Parents: A Critical Perspective of Bicultural Parent Involvement in...
  • With every win, coach Regragui dreams louder and louder of actually becoming World Champion, and urges all Moroccans, biculturals and binationals across the world to openly do the same.2022 December 12, Maïthé Chini, “Belgium in Brief: A reflection of raw Moroccan reality”, in The Brussels Times, Brussels: BXL Connect...

Forms of bicultural

Adjective
comparativemore bicultural
superlativemost bicultural
Noun
pluralbiculturals

Origin of bicultural

PIE word *dwóh₁ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Italic *dwi- Latin bi-bor. English bi- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English -al English bicultural The adjective is derived from bi- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + culture + -al. The noun is derived from the adjective.

Words formed from bicultural

Questions about bicultural

What does bicultural mean?
Bicultural means adapted to two separate cultures.
How do you use bicultural in a sentence?
Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents.
What part of speech is bicultural?
Bicultural can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce bicultural?
Bicultural is pronounced /baɪˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl/ (UK).

Words near bicultural in the dictionary

  1. bicucullin
  2. bicuculline
  3. bicucullines
  4. bicucullinic
  5. bicultamide
  6. bicultural
  7. biculturalism
  8. biculturalisms
  9. biculturality
  10. biculturally
  11. biculturals

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