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cultural appropriations

cultural appropriations is the plural of cultural appropriation.

Meaning of cultural appropriation

Noun

cultural appropriation (countable and uncountable, plural cultural appropriations)

  1. The (often financially) exploitative, oppressive and/or inaccurate cooption of elements of one culture by members of a different culture, often of those which have a history of stigmatisation.
    • White Americans engaged in cultural appropriation when they performed dances involving blackface and mock Native American regalia.

Questions about cultural appropriations

What is cultural appropriations the plural of?
Cultural appropriations is the plural of cultural appropriation.

Words near cultural appropriations in the dictionary

  1. culturagrams
  2. cultural
  3. cultural anthropologist
  4. cultural anthropology
  5. cultural appropriation
  6. cultural appropriations
  7. cultural appropriator
  8. cultural appropriators
  9. cultural arbitraries
  10. cultural arbitrary
  11. cultural barbiturate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cultural appropriations (page history and authors); cultural appropriation (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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