transcultural
transcultural — adjective
1. relating to or connecting more than one culture, especially in terms of the exch
relating to or connecting more than one culture, especially in terms of the exchange or blending of ideas, customs, and ways of life between them.
Sayaka's transcultural team in Jakarta agreed on one holiday calendar for different festivals.
transcultural + noun (attributive use); concrete context: holiday calendar across cultures
Élise says her transcultural childhood in Singapore and London helped her understand different people.
At the Nairobi forum, transcultural talks helped farmers and city planners share river water in a drought.
Andrés's transcultural team taught him to read indirect Japanese feedback and adjust his planning style.
Gita's bakery in Berlin sells Vietnamese-German bread rolls, a transcultural blend of two cooking traditions.
- cross-cultural
more common in everyday usage; emphasises comparison between cultures rather than blending
- intercultural
focuses on interaction and communication between cultures; slightly more formal
- multicultural
describes coexistence of multiple cultures, not necessarily the exchange between them; broader and more widely used
- monocultural
describes a single-culture setting with no cross-cultural mixing
文法句型
transcultural + noun
be transcultural
用法筆記
Almost always used attributively before a noun. Less common in predicative position (e.g., 'the space is transcultural'). Found primarily in academic, sociological, and artistic contexts rather than everyday speech.