acculturate

verb

ac·​cul·​tur·​ate ə-ˈkəl-chə-ˌrāt How to pronounce acculturate (audio)
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acculturated; acculturating

transitive verb

: to change through acculturation

Examples of acculturate in a Sentence

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The art world is acculturated to the notion that biennials should highlight new narratives but seems to presume that those artists must also be living and relatively young. Pamela J. Joyner, ARTnews.com, 14 Oct. 2024 This growth is no longer coming from new immigrants naturalizing — it’s being driven by the birth of new generations of Latino and Hispanic Americans who are becoming further removed from the immigrant experience and, in turn, becoming assimilated and acculturated to the American experience. Christian Paz, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 But Roy believes that the situation today is different, because there is nothing for us to get acculturated to. Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024 Crews were prefabricated communities, able to accommodate the constant turnover of individuals and to acculturate new recruits on the job. James Belich, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2023 Ethnoburb immigrants are generally nonwhite, have minimal desire to acculturate into whiteness, and some of them are already educated and affluent. Bianca Mabute-Louie, ELLE, 9 Feb. 2023 Inspired and/or appalled by the experiences of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, Barnes imagines a dialogue in which a Black duchess helps acculturate a Black duchess-to-be to her new position. New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020 Women are acculturated to have a lot of those skills to begin with. National Geographic, 17 June 2019 Sadness, resentment and burnout aren’t going to be shamed or ridiculed away by the part of you acculturated to scoff at such pain. Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 12 Apr. 2019

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from acculturation

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of acculturate was in 1907

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“Acculturate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acculturate. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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