Meaning

1 senses

  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.

    akkulturieren

    адапти́роватьсяadaptírovatʹsja, интегри́роватьсяintegrírovatʹsja

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
familiarize oneself with a new culture:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
familiarize oneself with a new culture:

Origin

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

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

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Forms

accultures, acculturing, accultured, accultured
Base formacculture · to acculture
3rd person singularaccultures
Present participleacculturing
Past simpleaccultured
Past participleaccultured

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyacculture
he, she, itaccultures

Past simpleLesson

all personsaccultured

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave accultured
he, she, ithas accultured

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill acculture

Word family

2 related words
Relatedacculturation
Derivedunaccultured

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
accreditaccreditationaccrueC2accumulateB2accumulationaccuracyB1
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