Meanings
adjectivecross-cultural (not comparable)
- not comparableBetween two or more cultures; intercultural.
The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130
Origin
- Englishcross-
- Latincultūra
- Middle Frenchculture
- Englishculture
- Englishcultural
- Englishcross-cultural
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