multicultural

From multi- +‎ cultural.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/

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multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)

1. Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
   • 31 October 2001, The Guardian‎:

     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:

     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.

2. (euphemistic) Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
   • 2011, ABC13‎:

     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.

• 1, monocultural; 2, bicultural; 3, tricultural; several or many, polycultural

From multi- +‎ cultural.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˌmul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al

multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturals)

1. multicultural

• “multicultural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From multi- +‎ cultural.

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)

1. multicultural

• multiculturalidade
• multiculturalismo

• “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From multi- +‎ cultural.

• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)

1. multicultural (encompassing several cultures)

• multiculturalidade
• multiculturalismo

• “multicultural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from English multicultural or French multiculturel. By surface analysis, multi- +‎ cultural.

multicultural m or n (feminine singular multiculturală, masculine plural multiculturali, feminine and neuter plural multiculturale)

1. multicultural

From multi- +‎ cultural.

• IPA^(key): /multikultuˈɾal/ [mul̪.t̪i.kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mul‧ti‧cul‧tu‧ral

multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturales)

1. multicultural

   Synonym: pluricultural

• “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014