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cross-cultural

cross-cultural adjective: between two or more cultures; intercultural.

Adjective

cross-cultural (not comparable)

  1. Between two or more cultures; intercultural.
    • The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130

Origin of cross-cultural

From cross- + cultural.

Phrases with cross-cultural

Questions about cross-cultural

What does cross-cultural mean?
Cross-cultural means between two or more cultures; intercultural.
What part of speech is cross-cultural?
Cross-cultural is an adjective.

Words near cross-cultural in the dictionary

  1. cross-cousin
  2. cross-cousin marriage
  3. cross-cousin marriages
  4. cross-cousins
  5. cross-crawl
  6. cross-cultural
  7. cross-cultural communication
  8. cross-culturally
  9. cross-current
  10. cross-curricular
  11. cross-cut

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