multicultural

CEFRB2

/ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/

adjective

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Examples

Australia is one of the most multicultural places on Earth.
Having been raised in multilingual and multicultural environments, languages are definitely her thing.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.

In context

We now live in a multicultural world.
Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)
Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.

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Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.
2001 October 31, “Embracing multicultural Britain”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2022
The literary landscape of London is as varied as the city itself. According to the 2011 census, 40 percent of residents identified as “Asian, Black, Mixed or Other.” While this is no multi-culti utopia, it is undeniably an intensely multicultural metropolis where more than 300 languages are spoken.
2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2023
Bedgood, whose father is African American and mother is Caucasian, says he's struggling to deal with such hatred. He grew up in Santa Clarita and says he could not have imagined something like this happening in a quiet community with many multicultural families.
2011 March 22, “Santa Clarita man apparent target of hate crime”, in ABC13, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021

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From multiculture + -al or multi- + cultural.