acculture

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈkʌl.tʃəɹ/

Verb

acculture (accultures, present participle acculturing; past and past participle accultured)

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.

Related terms

• acculturation

Translations

• French: acculturer
• German: akkulturieren
• Portuguese: aculturar-se
• Russian: адапти́роваться
• Spanish: aculturar

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