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third-culture kid

third-culture kid is the alternative form of third culture kid.

Meaning of third culture kid

Noun

third culture kid (plural third culture kids)

  1. A young person who has lived for a significant period outside their birth (or passport) country due to parental work-related migration.
    • In 1984, Dr. Ted Ward, then a sociologist at Michigan State University, predicted in a plenary talk at the International Conference for Missionary Kids (ICMK) in Manila that third culture kids were the prototype citizens of the future.2009, David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken, Third culture kids: growing up among worlds, page xii
    Synonyms:
    TCK

Forms of third-culture kid

pluralthird-culture kids

Questions about third-culture kid

What is third-culture kid the alternative form of?
Third-culture kid is the alternative form of third culture kid.

Words near third-culture kid in the dictionary

  1. third-class entity
  2. third-class object
  3. third-class objects
  4. third-class value
  5. third-class values
  6. third-culture kid
  7. third-culture kids
  8. third-degree
  9. third-degree burn
  10. third-degree burns
  11. third-degree murder

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