"multicultural" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/ Audio: en-us-multicultural.ogg Forms: more multicultural [comparative], most multicultural [superlative]
Etymology: From multiculture + -al. Etymology templates: {{af|en|multiculture|-al}} multiculture + -al Head templates: {{en-adj}} multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)
  1. Relating or pertaining to several different cultures. Translations (relating to several different cultures): բազմամշակութային (bazmamšakutʻayin) (Armenian), мультыкульту́рны (mulʹtykulʹtúrny) (Belarusian), междукултурен (meždukulturen) [masculine] (Bulgarian), multicultural (Catalan), 多元文化的 (duōyuán wénhuà de) (Chinese Mandarin), multikulturní (Czech), flerkulturell (Danish), multikulturell (Danish), multicultureel (Dutch), multiculturele (Dutch), monikulttuurinen (Finnish), multiculturel (French), multicultural [feminine, masculine] (Galician), multikulturell (German), multikulti (German), multi-kulti (German), Multikulti- (German), Multikultur- (German), πολυπολιτισμικός (polypolitismikós) (Greek), multikulturális (Hungarian), multikultural (Indonesian), ilchultúrtha (Irish), multiculturale (Italian), мультимәдени (multimädeni) (Kazakh), мултику́лтурен (multikúlturen) (Macedonian), повеќеку́лтурен (poveḱekúlturen) (Macedonian), multitchultuthel [Jersey] (Norman), máŋggakultuvrralaš (Northern Sami), flerkulturell (Norwegian Bokmål), multikulturell (Norwegian Bokmål), fleirkulturell (Norwegian Nynorsk), multikulturell (Norwegian Nynorsk), pluricultural (Occitan), wielokulturowy (Polish), multikulturowy (Polish), multikulti (Polish), multicultural (Portuguese), multicultural (Romanian), мультикульту́рный (mulʹtikulʹtúrnyj) (Russian), относя́щийся к ра́зным культу́рам (otnosjáščijsja k ráznym kulʹtúram) (Russian), многокульту́рный (mnogokulʹtúrnyj) (Russian), multicultural (Spanish), mångkulturell (Swedish), multikulturell (Swedish), çokkültürlü (Turkish), мультикульту́рний (mulʹtykulʹtúrnyj) (Ukrainian), багатокульту́рний (bahatokulʹtúrnyj) (Ukrainian), đa văn hóa (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-multicultural-en-adj-UTDVebmr Disambiguation of 'relating to several different cultures': 80 20
  2. (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races. Tags: euphemistic
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: multicult, multiculti, multiculturalise, multiculturalism, multiculturalist, multiculturalistic, multiculturality, multiculturalize, Multicultural London English, multiculturally, multicultural Marxism 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
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "relating to several different cultures",
      "word": "multikulturell"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "relating to several different cultures",
      "word": "çokkültürlü"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "mulʹtykulʹtúrnyj",
      "sense": "relating to several different cultures",
      "word": "мультикульту́рний"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bahatokulʹtúrnyj",
      "sense": "relating to several different cultures",
      "word": "багатокульту́рний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "relating to several different cultures",
      "word": "đa văn hóa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "multicultural"
}

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