cross-cultural

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See also: crosscultural

English

Etymology

From cross- +‎ cultural.

Adjective

cross-cultural (not comparable)

  1. Between two or more cultures; intercultural.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
      The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.

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