ACCULTURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acculturate mean? 

• ACCULTURATE (verb)
  The verb ACCULTURATE has 1 sense:

1. assimilate culturally

  Familiarity information: ACCULTURATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCULTURATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they acculturate    ... he / she / it acculturates   
Past simple: acculturated   
Past participle: acculturated   
-ing form: acculturating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assimilate culturally

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "acculturate" is one way to...):

assimilate (become similar to one's environment)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "acculturate"):

detribalise; detribalize (cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

acculturation (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)

acculturative (of or relating to acculturation)

culture (the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group)

culture (all the knowledge and values shared by a society)

culture (a particular society at a particular time and place)