"acculturation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ə.ˌkʌl.t͡ʃə.ˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ Forms: acculturations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: First attested in 1880; ad- (“toward”) + culture + -ation (“a process”); equivalent to acculturate + -ion Etymology templates: {{confix|en|ad|culture|ation|t1=toward|t3=a process}} ad- (“toward”) + culture + -ation (“a process”), {{suffix|en|acculturate|ion}} acculturate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} acculturation (countable and uncountable, plural acculturations)
  1. A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (process by which the culture of an isolated society changes): aculturació [feminine] (Catalan), 涵化 (hánhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), akkulturaatio (Finnish), επιπολιτισμός (epipolitismós) [masculine] (Greek), akulturasi (Indonesian), аккультурация (akkulturasiä) (Kazakh), мәдени жанасым (mädeni janasym) (Kazakh), аккультурация (akkulturatsiya) (Kyrgyz), akulturasi (Malay), akulturacja [feminine] (Polish), aculturação [feminine] (Portuguese), akulturacija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), aculturación [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-acculturation-en-noun-b8nCn1Xy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with ad-, English terms suffixed with -ation, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with ad-: 56 44 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ation: 64 36 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 64 36 Disambiguation of 'process by which the culture of an isolated society changes': 63 37
  2. A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that they inhabit, starting at birth. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (process by which a person acquires the culture): aculturació [feminine] (Catalan), 涵化 (hánhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), akkulturaatio (Finnish), Akkulturation [feminine] (German), akulturasi (Indonesian), akulturasi (Malay), akulturacja [feminine] (Polish), akulturacija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-acculturation-en-noun-EzOpmhT8 Disambiguation of 'process by which a person acquires the culture': 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: acculturate, acculturational, acculturationist, acculturation model Related terms: acclimation, assimilation

Inflected forms

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