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cultural

[ kuhl-cher-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to culture or cultivation.


cultural

/ ˈkʌltʃərəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to artistic or social pursuits or events considered to be valuable or enlightened
  2. of or relating to a culture or civilization
  3. (of certain varieties of plant) obtained by specialized breeding


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Derived Forms

  • ˈculturally, adverb

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Other Words From

  • cultur·al·ly adverb
  • anti·cultur·al adjective
  • anti·cultur·al·ly adverb
  • de-cultur·al adjective
  • non·cultur·al adjective
  • non·cultur·al·ly adverb
  • pre·cultur·al adjective
  • pre·cultur·al·ly adverb
  • pseudo·cultur·al adjective
  • pseudo·cultur·al·ly adverb
  • trans·cultur·al adjective
  • trans·cultur·al·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cultural1

First recorded in 1865–70; culture + -al 1

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Example Sentences

It’s a campus novel set at Harvard in 1995, during the cultural moment when email was just becoming a thing.

From Vox

It’s a political question, an ethical question, and a cultural question.

Over cultural evolutionary time, humans develop skills that are crucial for survival, but often difficult and time-consuming to learn.

According to childhood friend and cultural anthropologist Nutsa Batiashvili, going back to the small, tight-knit country “gives you a chance for whatever you’re doing to mean just a little bit more.”

From Ozy

Sex roles, Mead argued, came first, the product of a long and complex process of circumstance, cultural borrowing, change, and chance.

These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.

Is it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?

So my way to point out his cultural cluelessness is to be even more clueless?

In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men.

Instead, local life is defined by cultural products that are more national or more global—think of the Sunday New York Times.

This organization marked the formal beginning of Richmond as a cultural center in Virginia.

Education, the "backbone" of cultural activities, is one of the most challenging current problems facing Virginia.

They belong, it would appear, to a stock of common inheritance from an uncertain cultural centre of immense antiquity.

Due consideration must be given to the widespread influence exercised by cultural contact.

The superior peoples are those who have had access to the accumulated cultural materials of the peoples that preceded them.

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