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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
multicultural
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a multicultural/multiracial society
▪ We live in a multicultural society.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
education
▪ The adviser responsible for multicultural education took this view.
▪ I planned my own units, gave homework, implemented multicultural education.
▪ A first step is to try to raise our own awareness of the issues involved in multicultural education generally.
▪ Government policy centred on the question of integration through schooling in the values of the Republic rather than on multicultural education.
▪ He also dealt with the issues of multicultural education and equal opportunities.
▪ Few described teaching methods in much detail and multicultural education and equal opportunities rarely received much attention.
▪ Colouring a few faces brown and celebrating a couple of extra festivals does not constitute multicultural education.
▪ The case demonstrates the difficulties which the policy of parental choice in education is presenting for multicultural education in state schools.
society
▪ What can teachers do to promote mathematics for a multicultural society?
▪ The Gold Rush produced, for instance, the most multicultural society the United States had ever seen.
▪ Encouraging authors to recognise that they live in a complex, multicultural society is one thing.
▪ In the multiracial, multicultural society which the United Kingdom has become, there are adjustments to be made on all sides.
▪ We will encourage changes to the education system which place a positive value on a pluralist, diverse and multicultural society.
▪ I thought: we live in a multicultural society, but everything we see is white and stereotyped.
▪ When considering why mathematics should reflect our multicultural society, a wide range of reasons can be identified.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The radio station serves a multicultural community.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A first step is to try to raise our own awareness of the issues involved in multicultural education generally.
▪ Encouraging authors to recognise that they live in a complex, multicultural society is one thing.
▪ I planned my own units, gave homework, implemented multicultural education.
▪ I thought: we live in a multicultural society, but everything we see is white and stereotyped.
▪ It is crucial that this does not happen with aspects of multicultural mathematics.
▪ No other school is more multicultural than Hunter, and the differences are exciting rather than frightening.
▪ The new Western is also more multicultural.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
multicultural

also multi-cultural, 1941, from multi- + cultural. At first often in a Canadian context. Picked up by U.S. education writers 1980s; widespread popular use from c.1990.

Wiktionary
multicultural

a. Relating or pertaining to several different cultures

WordNet
multicultural

adj. of or relating to or including several cultures; "a multicultural event"

Usage examples of "multicultural".

Not only is modernity not devoid of the Goddess, her Goodness and Agape and Compassion are written all over it, with its radically new and emergent stance of worldcentric pluralism, universal benevolence, and multicultural tolerance, something that no horticultural society could even conceive, let alone implement.

Americans are fully Americanized, since the United States in the new millennium is still a nation of immigrants and a multicultural, cosmopolitan country.

Of course, she needed a better excuse than multicultural merrymaking if she was going to put off carrying out a direct order from the Strigoi Council.

American experiment, a real-world demonstration that nations, even multicultural and multiethnic nations, could survive and prosper with these freedoms reasonably intact.

Amoma, and then before the Third Multicultural Tribunal, which issued the warrants, were held in absentia.

So, Abu borrowed the microphone from the bandleader and, standing tall and dignified, his nose a fluorescent traffic cone in the spotlight, he cleared his throat and began, "Ladies and gentlemen, Isaac and Ishmael's, your home for the multicultural cuisine of Jerusalem, is proud to announce .

Well, the Spice Bill--as in 'variety is the spice of life'--will require federally funded grade schools to teach multicultural appreciation.

America is a big multicultural society full of densely packed cities with large foreign-born populations - and hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

Elite multicultural squad of specially trained officers infiltrates an international gang of drug dealers and professional assassins.