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transcreate

transcreate verb: to transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.

Verb

transcreate (third-person singular simple present transcreates, present participle transcreating, simple past and past participle transcreated)

  1. To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.
    • At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English1961, Writers Workshop (Calcutta, India), Writers Workshop, page 29
    • "We need someone to trans-create, rather than translate our advertising for the Hispanic market, especially in Dade," said Sandy Tapper, NCNB advertising1986 October 20, “Agency Mulls Economic Question”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Examples of transcreate in a sentence

  • Even Raja Rao's, Serpent and the Rope, is much less successful in its attempt to transcreate a Sanskrit structure into English.1988, World Englishes: WE., volumes 7-8, page 331:
  • ... saying under my breath as it were: Let him transcreate as much as he likes but allow me merely to translate.2004, Sujit Mukherjee with Meenakshi Mukherjee, Translation as recovery, page 140:
  • Decker explained that no two languages will transcreate the same.2025, Fifteen New Hymns Available to Use in Church and at Home:

Forms of transcreate

third-person singular presenttranscreates
present participletranscreating
past participletranscreated
pasttranscreated
alternative formtrans-create

Origin of transcreate

From trans- + create or Back-formation from transcreation. (Etymology 1).

Words formed from transcreate

Questions about transcreate

What does transcreate mean?
Transcreate means to transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.
How do you use transcreate in a sentence?
Even Raja Rao's, Serpent and the Rope, is much less successful in its attempt to transcreate a Sanskrit structure into English.
What part of speech is transcreate?
Transcreate is a verb.
What is the past tense of transcreate?
The past tense of transcreate is transcreated.

Words near transcreate in the dictionary

  1. transcranial direct current stimulation
  2. transcranial Doppler
  3. transcranial Dopplers
  4. transcranially
  5. transcranic
  6. transcreate
  7. transcreated
  8. transcreates
  9. transcreating
  10. transcreation
  11. transcreations

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