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intercultural

intercultural

3 4.1
About contact between people from different cultures
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntərˈkʌltʃərəl/
translation icon : intercultural
  • The conference focused on intercultural dialogue between different communities.
  • intercultural communication
  • intercultural dialogue
  • intercultural exchange

That was one of the things he was, he was, and he was a advocate of sort of an intercultural understanding.

Examples

  • In the last two decades, the field of intercultural communication has grown tremendously.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Can we not also claim the opposite, that intercultural relations are also international relations?

    Academic text (1994)

  • In turn, such teamwork depends on high levels of intercultural communication.

    Academic text (2008)

  • In addition, AlCom will facilitate intercultural business deals and personal relationships at all levels.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The recent trend to teach culture together with language and intercultural communication along with EFL is very timely.

    Academic text (1990)

  • After the exchange, communities and counterparts remain in touch, establishing enduring intercultural and educational ties.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Global learning provides a challenging context in which to further develop both intercultural communication competence and interpersonal intelligence.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Among other objectives, this project intended to cultivate intercultural competencies with the faculty as well as the students.

    Academic text (2008)

  • When people of different cultures interact, their invisible "cages" interfere with effective intercultural communication.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Her research explores the benefits of intercultural understanding in global organizations.

Synonyms

multicultural
vsintercultural
38 3.8

Having people from many countries and backgrounds living and working together

concerns interaction between cultures usually on a smaller or pairwise scale
bicultural
vsintercultural
1 5.0

Connected with two different cultures in the same person, family, or place

focuses on interaction between separate cultures rather than internal coexistence
cross-cultural
vsintercultural
1 4.3

Involving people from two or more different cultures

emphasises interaction between cultures rather than just comparison or study
transcultural
vsintercultural
1 7.5

Connecting people or ideas from more than one culture

deals with interaction between distinct cultures rather than transcending cultural borders

How Intercultural

multicultural
38 3.8
intercultural
3 4.1
monocultural
1 7.0

Surface Forms

intercultural positive

Morphology

intercultural = cultural (transparent) = inter + culture + al

The adjective 'cultural' plus the productive prefix 'inter-' yields a clear meaning of interaction between cultures.

Etymology

Intercultural comes from the prefix inter- meaning 'between' and the word culture meaning 'the way people live' (their food, music, and ideas). So intercultural describes things that happen 'between' different cultures, like exchanges, conversations, or festivals that bring people together.