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acculture

verb
/əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻ — “to move; to turn (around)”
  2. derived from cultūra — “cultivation; culture”
  3. derived from culture — “cultivation; culture”
  4. prefixed as acculture — “ac + culture”

Definitions

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

    • I 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA