[W]ithout English, I would not be how I am: a bilingual and bicultural person at home in both English and Japanese.
Source: wiktionary
Bicultural
//baɪˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ʊ)əɹəl//
Synonyms for "bicultural"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
coordinate
5 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 8 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 雙文化的 /双文化的 adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
- 雙文化者 /双文化者 noun (person belonging to two cultures)
Dutch
2 entries- bicultureel adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
- bicultureel noun (person belonging to two cultures)
Finnish
2 entries- kaksikulttuurinen adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
- kaksikulttuurinen henkilö noun (person belonging to two cultures)
French
3 entries- biculturel adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
- biculturel noun (person belonging to two cultures)
- biculturelle noun (person belonging to two cultures)
Greek
1 entries- αμφιπολιτισμικός adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
Italian
1 entries- biculturale adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
Macedonian
1 entries- двоку́лтурен adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
Romanian
1 entries- bicultural adj (adapted to two separate cultures)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Also as unfortunate are the overt and covert deficit notions held by teachers and administrators towards bicultural students; deficit notions, extended, by assocation, to bicultural parents. These misguided notions are propagated, for the most part, devoid of any systematic analysis that directly implicates the oppressive social, economic, political, cultural and linguistic forces that structurally shape and perpetuate the exclusion, exploitation, and domination of bicultural communities.
Source: wiktionary
Compared with ethnic affirmers, biculturals are better educated; have higher incomes, socioeconomic status, and self-esteem; and are more involved in local social networks.
Source: wiktionary
Persons without a migratory background may also have a transcultural identity—and not everybody who is confronted with at least two cultures is automatically supposed to have a transcultural identity[…]. Thus, biculturals do not necessarily have a transcultural identity.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.