单词 | acculturated |
释义 | acculturatedadj. Originally U.S. 1. Of an object, idea, etc.: acquired through acculturation. Cf. acculturate v. 1. ΚΠ 1907 Mem. Amer. Anthropol. Assoc. 2 ii. 135 The extension of the animistic concept over acculturated objects, such as the chicken, horse, mule, and gun. 1952 Amer. Q. 4 182/1 Egypt after Napoleon ‘opened’ that country to trade, archaeology, and an acculturated ambivalence to all things Western. 1989 Jrnl. Anthropol. Res. 45 478 The medicine man's statement that ‘our bodies are made of electrical impulses’, whether or not it indicates an acculturated opinion, is in conformity with the traditional notion. 2006 R. W. Wiers & P. J. de Jong in J. A. Arlsdale Adv. in Social Psychol. Res. i. 16 It is to some extent a general acculturated idea that drinking alcohol follows being in a bad mood. 2. Of a person or group: adapted to a different culture; subjected to acculturation. Cf. acculturate v. 2. ΚΠ 1920 Bk. Rev. Digest 16 35 Stores of information on tribes now extinct or acculturated to the white man's ways might have been garnered by our Indian agents. 1967 Times 3 Apr. 30/7 Very often the most highly educated, ‘acculturated’ Maoris, the most successful in European society, are the most conscious of their Maoritanga, their Maori-ness. 1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) x. 233 Whist the Libyans were in many ways acculturated, they clearly retained many features of their original socio-political structure. 2011 D. E. Lipstadt Eichmann Trial vi. 149 Arendt was the product of a highly acculturated upper-class German Jewish family in which, she claimed, the word ‘Jew’ was never spoken. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1907 |
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