MEANING
To acquire or adapt cultural practices through contact with another cultural group.
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Words that belong together
- acculturate to a community
- an acculturated newcomer
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The newcomers acculturated at different rates across the generations.
She had acculturated to the public rituals without abandoning the private ones.
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Word forms
- Base
- acculturate
- Past tense
- acculturated
- Past participle
- acculturated
- Present participle
- acculturating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- acculturate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are acculturating
- Present perfect
- have/has acculturated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been acculturating
- Past
- acculturated
- Past continuous
- was/were acculturating
- Past perfect
- had acculturated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been acculturating
- Future
- will acculturate
- Future continuous
- will be acculturating
- Future perfect
- will have acculturated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been acculturating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: acculturate; acculturates; acculturated; acculturated; acculturating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: acculturates.
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