Usually means: Disorientation encountering unfamiliar cultural practices.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word culture shock:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. culture shock: Merriam-Webster
  2. culture shock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. culture shock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. culture shock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. culture shock: Vocabulary.com
  6. culture shock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. culture shock: Wiktionary
  8. culture shock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. culture shock: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. culture shock: Dictionary.com
  11. Culture Shock (BBC World Service), Culture Shock (Into the Dark), Culture Shock (TV series), Culture Shock (band), Culture Shock (musician), Culture Shock (radio programme), Culture Shock, Culture shock (disambiguation), Culture shock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. culture shock: Rhymezone
  13. culture shock: FreeDictionary.org
  14. culture shock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. culture shock: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. culture shock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. culture shock: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Culture-shock, culture shock: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. culture shock: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (culture shock)

noun:  (anthropology, sociology) A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment.

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