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cross-cultural

cross-cultural

1 4.3
Involving people from two or more different cultures
  • adjective
  • /ˈkrɔsˈkʌltʃərəl/
translation icon : intercultural
  • The cross-cultural training program helped employees understand different customs and practices.
  • a cross-cultural study

These are meant to be cross cultural for everyone on earth.

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Examples

  • Well, cultural anthropology is the cross cultural study of the way that people understand, experience and make their way through the world.

  • For cross-cultural data, we compared the Black South Africans with the Black Nigerians.

    Academic text (2004)
  • These are meant to be cross cultural for everyone on earth.

  • And yeah, it's it's kind of a nice cross cultural, cross religious thing.

  • So the exhibition really is very much about looking at cross cultural encounters and this object shows that to us very clearly.

  • Cross-cultural consultation also considers cultural differences from one community, institution, or profession to another.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Within this cross-cultural sample, two highly noticeable patterns emerge.

    Academic text (2002)
  • My company, InterCultural Group, provides cross-cultural training, coaching, and consulting services to organizations that operate internationally.

    Blog text (20)
  • Long-term cross-cultural encounters often involve a process of newcomers' acculturation to a different society.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Abbott's (1999) cross-cultural exploration of social work values found that support of self-determination was shared by social workers from many countries.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

intercultural
vscross-cultural
3 4.1

About contact between people from different cultures

is about involving or comparing cultures rather than interaction
transcultural
vscross-cultural
1 7.5

Connecting people or ideas from more than one culture

focuses on involving or comparing cultures rather than broad spanning

How Diverse

global
2.7
multicultural
38 3.8
cross-cultural
1 4.3
bicultural
1 5.0
monocultural
1 7.0

Surface Forms

cross-cultural positive

Morphology

cross-cultural = cultural (transparent) = cross + culture + al

The meaning is directly derived from 'cross' (between/across) + 'cultural' (relating to culture), so learners who know both components can infer the meaning. [Postprocessing: moved 'cross' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Cross-cultural starts with cross, which means 'across' or 'between', and ends with culture, which means 'the shared way of life or customs of a group'. So cross-cultural describes something that goes 'across cultures' and involves, compares, or connects two or more different cultures.