acculturatingadj.

Brit.

/əˈkʌltʃᵿreɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/əˈkəltʃəˌreɪdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: acculturate v., -ing suffix², ac- prefix, culture n., -ate suffix³.

Etymology: < acculturate v. + -ing suffix². In sense 1 perhaps independently < ac- prefix + culture n. + -ate suffix³ + -ing suffix².

Originally U.S.

1. That cultivates the mind, that makes a person cultured. rare.

ΚΠ

1920 School & Soc. 17 Jan. 73/1 General courses in history and the social sciences and other broadening and acculturating subjects.

2. That facilitates acculturation.

ΚΠ

1920 E. Sapir in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Ling. 1 271/2 That the various correspondences pointed out in this paper and by Dr. Sapir are the result of such acculturating influence, I have little doubt.

1968 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 16 May 10/2 The Junior-Senior proms, the banquets, the awards assemblies,..have wrought their acculturating influence as nothing else could do.

2004 G. Garcia New Mainstream x. 223 What, after all, could be more thoroughly acculturating, more quintessentially American, than a day of shopping at Wal-Mart or Sears?

3. That undergoes acculturation; becoming acculturated.

ΚΠ

1939 Psychol. Bull. 36 556 This study presents an analysis of psychological aspects of membership in an acculturating group, based on a field study of second-generation Italian men in a New England city.

1978 T. D. Graves & N. B. Graves in G. D. Spindler Making of Psychol. Anthropol. xv. 528 Acculturating Indians were being mapped into new, nontraditional social control structures.

1994 S. M. Lowenstein Berlin Jewish Community v. 43 By the 1770s Berlin was home not only to an acculturating elite but also to a nucleus of Enlightened Jewish intellectuals.

2008 A. Pugushev Resilient Amer. iii. 66 While statistics on crime abound, none exist on civic decency, invisible, but dominant—comforting thoughts for an acculturating immigrant.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	acculturating
释义	acculturatingadj. Brit. /əˈkʌltʃᵿreɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /əˈkəltʃəˌreɪdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: acculturate v., -ing suffix², ac- prefix, culture n., -ate suffix³. Etymology: < acculturate v. + -ing suffix². In sense 1 perhaps independently < ac- prefix + culture n. + -ate suffix³ + -ing suffix². Originally U.S. 1. That cultivates the mind, that makes a person cultured. rare. ΚΠ 1920 School & Soc. 17 Jan. 73/1 General courses in history and the social sciences and other broadening and acculturating subjects. 2. That facilitates acculturation. ΚΠ 1920 E. Sapir in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Ling. 1 271/2 That the various correspondences pointed out in this paper and by Dr. Sapir are the result of such acculturating influence, I have little doubt. 1968 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 16 May 10/2 The Junior-Senior proms, the banquets, the awards assemblies,..have wrought their acculturating influence as nothing else could do. 2004 G. Garcia New Mainstream x. 223 What, after all, could be more thoroughly acculturating, more quintessentially American, than a day of shopping at Wal-Mart or Sears? 3. That undergoes acculturation; becoming acculturated. ΚΠ 1939 Psychol. Bull. 36 556 This study presents an analysis of psychological aspects of membership in an acculturating group, based on a field study of second-generation Italian men in a New England city. 1978 T. D. Graves & N. B. Graves in G. D. Spindler Making of Psychol. Anthropol. xv. 528 Acculturating Indians were being mapped into new, nontraditional social control structures. 1994 S. M. Lowenstein Berlin Jewish Community v. 43 By the 1770s Berlin was home not only to an acculturating elite but also to a nucleus of Enlightened Jewish intellectuals. 2008 A. Pugushev Resilient Amer. iii. 66 While statistics on crime abound, none exist on civic decency, invisible, but dominant—comforting thoughts for an acculturating immigrant. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1920
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