Dictionary

polyculture en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English polyculture From poly- + culture.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The planting of two or more crops in the same place.
2. (countable, uncommon, uncountable) A multiculture; a polycultural society, sometimes especially one in which multiple cultures exist without one dominating.
   • Marsdsen, R. (1993) 'Global Monoculture, Multiculture and Polyculture', Social Research 60 (3): 493–523. 2003, Angus Cameron, Ronen Palan, The Imagined Economies of Globalization, SAGE, →ISBN, page 179:
   • Europe/the EU's internal collective group identity is polycultural and not yet multicultural as per its “United in Diversity” motto. The concept of polyculture is a borrowed term from the discipline of agriculture. […] This paper adds a third definition to these two definitions by proposing to include the dominant culture within the fold of the polyculture to make it a multicultural society. 2014, Kenan Aksu, Turkey: A Regional Power in the Making, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 128:
   • Finally, but equal in importance, this book aims to engage with the ongoing dialogue among scholars of race and ethnicity in America, specifically regarding conversations on the issues of multiculture, polyculture, and the persistence of race. 2007, Jeffrey F. L. Partridge, Beyond Literary Chinatown, American Ethnic and Cultural S:
   • What we have here is not a 'multiculture' as it is represented in multiculturalism, not a pluralist order of discrete patches of culture, all somehow, 'equally valid' within the polity, but—to form a Greek/Roman Creole—a polyculture, or at any rate a collection of cultural entities that are not (a) discrete and complete in themselves; (b) that are not in any sense 'intrinsically' 'equal'; and (c) are active together and hence bound up with change. 2003, Roger Hewitt, edited by R. Harris and B. Rampton, Language, Youth and the Destabilisation of Ethnicity, page 190:

Forms

Antonyms

monoculture

Translations (9)

ru многопо́лье (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · nl polycultuur (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · fr polyculture (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · pl polikultura (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · nl mengteelt (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · it policoltura (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · de Polykultur (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · el πολυκαλλιέργεια (planting of two or more crops in the same place) · fi monipuolinen viljely (planting of two or more crops in the same place)