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cultural Definition

cul·tural (kul′c̸hər əl)

adjective

  1. of or pertaining to culture; specif., of the training and refinement of the intellect, interests, taste, skills, and arts
  2. of or having to do with a particular culture
  3. obtained by breeding or cultivation

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cultural Synonyms

cultural

modif.

educational, socializing, refining, refined, constructive, influential, nurturing, disciplining, enlightening, civilizing, advancing, instructive, humanizing, beneficial, learned, educative, edifying, illuminating, polishing, enriching, elevating, uplifting, improving, ennobling, raising, inspirational, regenerative, artistic, aesthetic, adorning, ornamenting, dignifying, glorifying, liberalizing, broadening, expanding, widening, catholicizing, developmental, humanistic, freeing from prejudice, stimulating thought, social, anthropological, sociological; see also artistic 1.

cultural Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • partly: It's partly political and partly cultural and it's a mix of the two.
  • no: Elder sister quot is loudly affirmed quot the marriage suffers no cultural.
  • perhaps: Perhaps cultural studies could be a resource for the teaching of culture and communication in language departments.
  • particularly: Does the globalization of new media have a particularly cultural or geo-political bias?
  • also: The extraction and use of bog and red spring ores reflects not only technological but also cultural practices.

Modifies a noun

  • heritage: The identity of the nation depends on its cultural heritage.
  • diversity: All events were free and programmed to reflect the cultural diversity of East London.
  • identity: Both race and religion are markers of personal and cultural identity.
  • context: The course places the history of medicine in a social and cultural context.
  • difference: The course will also explore aspects of cultural differences.
  • background: The church had to quickly adjust to the cultural background of the day.

Used with adjective complement

  • suffer: Elder sister quot is loudly affirmed quot the marriage suffers no cultural.
  • cross: A way to cross cultural divides is to use universal symbols.

Preposition: in

  • nature: He argues the case for seeing contemporary 'global ' changes as more than economic and cultural in nature.
cultural Quotes

Tryas one may to stress the cultural and historical role of the place†it still conveys one overwhelmingly powerful image to your average Englishman: the dirty weekend.

—Smith, Godfrey

Cultural Cringe.

—Phillips, ArthurAngell

   Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

—Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald),Jr

The Aboriginal writer is a Janus-type figure with one face turned to the past and the other to the future while existing ina postmodern, multicultural Australia inwhich he or she must fight for cultural space.

—Narogin, Mudrooroo formerly  Colin Jackson

[Science] seldom proceedsinthestraightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward†are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

—Watson,James D(ewey)

I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le¤  vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.

—van den Berghe, Pierre L