multicultural
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
From multiculture + -al or multi- + cultural.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
Adjective
multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)
- Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
- Coordinate terms: monocultural (1), bicultural (2), tricultural (3)
- Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)
- 2001 October 31, “Embracing multicultural Britain”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2022:
- Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.
- 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:
- The literary landscape of London is as varied as the city itself. According to the 2011 census, 40 percent of residents identified as “Asian, Black, Mixed or Other.” While this is no multi-culti utopia, it is undeniably an intensely multicultural metropolis where more than 300 languages are spoken.
- (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
- 2011 March 22, “Santa Clarita man apparent target of hate crime”, in ABC13[3], archived from the original on 24 June 2021:
- 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.
- 2026 June 18, Ian Williams, “'My brother hid in a rice sack' - The refugee stars at the World Cup”, in BBC Sport[4], archived from the original on 15 September 2026:
- 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
- acultural
- aculture
- alethocultural
- alethoculture
- anticultural
- anticulture
- bicultural
- biculture
- countercultural
- counterculture
- demicultural
- demiculture
- ethnocultural
- ethnoculture
- intercultural
- interculture
- intracultural
- intraculture
- metacultural
- metaculture
- monocultural
- monoculture
- multiculture
- noncultural
- nonculture
- pluricultural
- pluriculture
- polycultural
- polyculture
- pseudocultural
- pseudoculture
- quadricultural
- quadriculture
- quasicultural
- quasiculture
- religiocultural
- religioculture
- semicultural
- semiculture
- sociocultural
- socioculture
- subcultural
- subculture
- supercultural
- superculture
- supracultural
- supraculture
- technocultural
- technoculture
- transcultural
- transculture
- tricultural
- triculture
- uncultural
- unculture
- unicultural
- uniculture
Translations
relating to several different cultures
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˌmul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal]
Audio (Barcelona): (file) - Rhymes: -al
Adjective
multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturals)
Further reading
- “multicultural”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Galician
Etymology
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Adjective
multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)
- multicultural
Derived terms
Further reading
- “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
Portuguese
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /muw.t͡ʃi.kuw.tuˈɾaw/ [muʊ̯.t͡ʃi.kuʊ̯.tuˈɾaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal/ [muɫ.ti.kuɫ.tuˈɾaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /mul.ti.kul.tuˈɾa.li/ [muɫ.ti.kuɫ.tuˈɾa.li]
- Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral
Adjective
multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)
- multicultural (encompassing several cultures)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “multicultural”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “multicultural”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Etymology
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Borrowed from English multicultural or French multiculturel. By surface analysis, multi- + cultural.
Adjective
multicultural m or n (feminine singular multiculturală, masculine plural multiculturali, feminine/neuter plural multiculturale)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | multicultural | multiculturală | multiculturali | multiculturale | ||
| definite | multiculturalul | multiculturala | multiculturalii | multiculturalele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | multicultural | multiculturale | multiculturali | multiculturale | ||
| definite | multiculturalului | multiculturalei | multiculturalilor | multiculturalelor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /multikultuˈɾal/ [mul̪.t̪i.kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral
Adjective
multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturales)
- multicultural
- Synonym: pluricultural
Derived terms
Further reading
- “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷelh₁-
- English terms prefixed with multi-
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- Rhymes:Spanish/al
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