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cross-cultural en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English cross- Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English cultural English cross-cultural From cross- + cultural.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Between 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: