multicultural

From multiculture +‎ -al or multi- +‎ cultural.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/

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multicultural (comparative more multicultural, superlative most multicultural)

1. Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.

   Coordinate terms: monocultural (1), bicultural (2), tricultural (3)

   Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)

   • 2001 October 31, “Embracing multicultural Britain”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 June 2022:

     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^[2], archived from the original on 11 May 2023:

     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 March 22, “Santa Clarita man apparent target of hate crime”, in ABC13‎^[3], archived from the original on 24 June 2021:

     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.

From multi- +‎ cultural.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˌmul.ti.kul.tuˈɾal]

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• Rhymes: -al

multicultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural multiculturals)

1. multicultural

• “multicultural”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From multi- +‎ cultural.

multicultural m or f (plural multiculturais)

1. multicultural

• multiculturalidade
• multiculturalismo

• “multicultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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 Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “multicultural”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

multicultural m or n (feminine singular multiculturală, masculine plural multiculturali, feminine/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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025