acculture

Either ac- +‎ culture or a back-formation from acculturation.

• IPA^(key): /əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/

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acculture (third-person singular simple present accultures, present participle acculturing, simple past and past participle accultured)

1. To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant

   I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.

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• Homophones: acculturent, accultures

acculture

1. inflection of acculturer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

accultūre

1. vocative masculine singular of accultūrus