adj
Meaning 1
Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: polycultural
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
multicultural
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
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CMU ARPABET: M AH2 L T IY0 K AH1 L CH ER0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mixed, hybrid, mongrel
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
of or relating to or including several cultures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a multicultural event
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kwélh1eti Proto-Italic *kwelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English -al English multicultural From multiculture + -al or multi- + cultural.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: բազմամշակութային (bazmamšakutʻayin) — relating to several different cultures
- Belarusian: мультыкульту́рны (mulʹtykulʹtúrny) — relating to several different cultures
- Bulgarian: междукултурен (meždukulturen) — relating to several different cultures
- Catalan: multicultural — relating to several different cultures
- Chinese Mandarin: 多元文化的 (duōyuán wénhuà de) — relating to several different cultures
- Czech: multikulturní — relating to several different cultures
- Danish: flerkulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Danish: multikulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Dutch: multicultureel — relating to several different cultures
- Finnish: monikulttuurinen — relating to several different cultures
- French: multiculturel — relating to several different cultures
- Galician: multicultural — relating to several different cultures
- German: multikulturell — relating to several different cultures
- German: multikulti — relating to several different cultures
- German: multi-kulti — relating to several different cultures
- German: Multikulti- — relating to several different cultures
- German: Multikultur- — relating to several different cultures
- Greek: πολυπολιτισμικός (polypolitismikós) — relating to several different cultures
- Hungarian: multikulturális — relating to several different cultures
- Indonesian: multikultural — relating to several different cultures
- Irish: ilchultúrtha — relating to several different cultures
- Italian: multiculturale — relating to several different cultures
- Kazakh: мультимәдени (multimädeni) — relating to several different cultures
- Macedonian: мултику́лтурен (multikúlturen) — relating to several different cultures
- Macedonian: повеќеку́лтурен (poveḱekúlturen) — relating to several different cultures
- Norman: multitchultuthel — relating to several different cultures
- Norwegian Bokmål: flerkulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Norwegian Bokmål: multikulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fleirkulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Norwegian Nynorsk: multikulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Occitan: pluricultural — relating to several different cultures
- Polish: wielokulturowy — relating to several different cultures
- Polish: multikulturowy — relating to several different cultures
- Polish: multikulti — relating to several different cultures
- Portuguese: multicultural — relating to several different cultures
- Romanian: multicultural — relating to several different cultures
- Russian: мультикульту́рный (mulʹtikulʹtúrnyj) — relating to several different cultures
- Russian: относя́щийся к ра́зным культу́рам (otnosjáščijsja k ráznym kulʹtúram) — relating to several different cultures
- Russian: многокульту́рный (mnogokulʹtúrnyj) — relating to several different cultures
- Northern Sami: máŋggakultuvrralaš — relating to several different cultures
- Spanish: multicultural — relating to several different cultures
- Swedish: mångkulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Swedish: multikulturell — relating to several different cultures
- Turkish: çokkültürlü — relating to several different cultures
- Ukrainian: мультикульту́рний (mulʹtykulʹtúrnyj) — relating to several different cultures
- Ukrainian: багатокульту́рний (bahatokulʹtúrnyj) — relating to several different cultures
- Vietnamese: đa văn hóa — relating to several different cultures
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