interculture

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noun

A new culture formed by the merging of aspects of existing cultures.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nouninterculture (plural intercultures)

plural intercultures

  1. human sciencesA new culture formed by the merging of aspects of existing cultures.

    Murdock's play stages a struggle over the character of America's rising youth, setting its conflicts in an early national Philadelphia profoundly altered by slave revolt and the presence of problematic Creole intercultures.

    2016, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Michael Drexler, The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States
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    As one is exposed to customs and practices of different cultures throughout one's life, one evolves through new intercultures. The intercultures may be regarded as steps within a continuing nonlinear process of cultural negotiation. This process involves a combination of retaining previous rules and practices, adapting some from the previous interculture and adopting some from the other culture.

    2008, Glyn M. Rimmington, Mara Alagic, Third Place Learning

    The practice of humbling oneself in the process of deep listening is a profound experience at the heart of affinity intercultures, the global, political, highly musical networks that happen when musicians of different backgrounds get together to play (Stanyek 2004a, 93).

    2013, Simone Krüger, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, The Globalization of Musics in Transit: Music Migration and Tourism

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
  9. Proto-Italic*kʷelō
  10. Latincolō
  11. Latincultūra
  12. Middle Frenchculture
  13. Englishculture
  14. Englishinterculture

From inter- + culture.

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APA

interculture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interculture

MLA

“interculture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interculture. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interculture,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interculture.

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