Usually means: Adapt to a different culture.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word acculturate:

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  1. acculturate: Merriam-Webster
  2. acculturate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acculturate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acculturate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acculturate: Vocabulary.com
  6. acculturate: Wordnik
  7. acculturate: Wiktionary
  8. acculturate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. acculturate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. acculturate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. acculturate: Dictionary.com
  12. Acculturate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. acculturate: Rhymezone
  14. acculturate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. acculturate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. acculturate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. acculturate: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acculturate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acculturate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See acculturated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To change the culture of (a person) by the influence of another culture, especially a more dominant culture.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a person) to acquire the culture of a society (or of a region, industry, or company), as in the case of children growing up in that culture, immigrants learning that culture, or new hires learning the ropes of a job.
verb:  (intransitive) To be changed by acculturation.

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