Acculture

Pronunciation Audio (US, Northern California)

• IPA: /əˈkÊŒl.tʃəɹ/

Origin

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

Full definition of acculture

Verb

1. To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrantI 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