acculturationaladj.
/əˌkʌltʃᵿˈreɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /əˌkʌltʃᵿˈreɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /əˌkəltʃəˈreɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Originally U.S.
= acculturative adj.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > process > specific
accultural1890
acculturative1915
acculturational1937
nativistic1937
schismogenic1949
massified1960
nativist1960
1937 Amer. Anthropologist 39 41 The Choctaw were subjected to longer and more intensive acculturational influences than were the Chickasaw, Creek, or Cherokee.
1964 L. C. Faron Hawks of Sun vii. 196 I beg off on grounds that this is not my especial interest and that those with acculturational interests might well shoulder the burden.
1976 Taos (New Mexico) News 1 July a9/3 Dr. Bodine..felt that electricity would have no significant acculturational effect on the Pueblo and was merely a cultural accretion.
2007 A. P. Grant in U. Ansaldo et al. Deconstructing Creole 129 Some Bahnaric languages..have borrowed many elements of acculturational vocabulary (for instance, the words for ‘1000’ and higher numerals, and also words such as ‘king, ruler’) from Cham.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1937