Transcreate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Transcreate is a verb meaning To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.
Meaning
To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.
Example Sentences
... saying under my breath as it were: Let him transcreate as much as he likes but allow me merely to translate.
Even Raja Rao's, Serpent and the Rope, is much less successful in its attempt to transcreate a Sanskrit structure into English.
At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English
"We need someone to trans-create, rather than translate our advertising for the Hispanic market, especially in Dade," said Sandy Tapper, NCNB advertising
Word Forms
- transcreates
- transcreating
- transcreated
- trans-create
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include transcode, transduce, translocalize, cotranslate, back-translate, transposition.
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