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multicultural

/ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/

multicultural adjective: relating or pertaining to several different cultures.

Adjective

multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)

  1. Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
    • Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)
    • Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.2001 October 31, “Embracing multicultural Britain”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2022
    Synonyms:
    polycultural
  2. (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
    • Bedgood, whose father is African American and mother is Caucasian, says he's struggling to deal with such hatred. He grew up in Santa Clarita and says he could not have imagined something like this happening in a quiet community with many multicultural families.2011 March 22, “Santa Clarita man apparent target of hate crime”, in ABC13, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021
    • Australia's professional footballers' association is so proud of the squad's multicultural makeup that it made a video with every player listing their place of birth or family heritage to showcase the benefits of immigration.2026 June 18, Ian Williams, “'My brother hid in a rice sack' - The refugee stars at the World Cup”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    mixed, hybrid, mongrel

multicultural meaning in Indonesian and Vietnamese

multicultural in Indonesian

relating to several different cultures
multikultural

multicultural in Vietnamese

relating to several different cultures
đa văn hóa

Examples of multicultural in a sentence

  • Multicultural London English is a multiethnolect.
  • The multicultural, multiamorous group of competitive young workaholics alternately getting in one another’s faces and pants.
  • “Multicultural teams today are like the multigender teams of yesterday,” said Ilene H.

All 32 example sentences with multicultural

Synonyms of multicultural

Forms of multicultural

comparativemore multicultural
superlativemost multicultural

Origin of multicultural

From multiculture + -al or multi- + cultural.

Words formed from multicultural

Phrases with multicultural

Questions about multicultural

What does multicultural mean?
Multicultural means relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
What is multicultural in Indonesian?
Multicultural in Indonesian is multikultural. See Multicultural meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is multicultural?
Multicultural is an adjective.
How do you pronounce multicultural?
Multicultural is pronounced /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/.

Words near multicultural in the dictionary

  1. multicultis
  2. multicultist
  3. multicultists
  4. multicultivation
  5. multicultivations
  6. multicultural
  7. Multicultural London English
  8. multicultural Marxism
  9. Multicultural Toronto English
  10. multiculturalism
  11. multiculturalisms

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