multicultural
/ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
adj
Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)"
- "Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English -al English multicultural From multiculture + -al or multi- + cultural.
Inflected Forms
more multicultural (comparative)
most multicultural (superlative)