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Kul⋅tur

[kool-toor]
–noun German.
1. (in Nazi Germany) native culture, held to be superior to that of other countries and subordinating the individual to national interests.
2. culture (def. 4).
3. a civilization characteristic of a time or a people.
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Kul·tur   (kŏŏl-tŏŏr')   
n.  
  1. Culture; civilization.

  2. German culture and civilization as idealized by the exponents of German imperialism during the Hohenzollern and Nazi regimes.


[German, from Latin cultūra, cultivation, care; see culture.]
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