cultural
of or relating to culture or cultivation.
Origin of cultural
1Other words from cultural
- 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
Words Nearby cultural
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How to use cultural in a sentence
It’s a campus novel set at Harvard in 1995, during the cultural moment when email was just becoming a thing.
This September, the Vox Book Club is reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot | Constance Grady | August 28, 2020 | VoxIt’s a political question, an ethical question, and a cultural question.
Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research? (Ep. 430) | Stephen J. Dubner | August 27, 2020 | FreakonomicsOver 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.”
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.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models | Carrie Arnold | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIs it anti-Semitism, or are less insidious cultural forces at work?
Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America? | Emily Shire | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTSo my way to point out his cultural cluelessness is to be even more clueless?
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyEducation, the "backbone" of cultural activities, is one of the most challenging current problems facing Virginia.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyThey belong, it would appear, to a stock of common inheritance from an uncertain cultural centre of immense antiquity.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieDue consideration must be given to the widespread influence exercised by cultural contact.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieThe superior peoples are those who have had access to the accumulated cultural materials of the peoples that preceded them.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology | Robert E. Park
British Dictionary definitions for cultural
/ (ˈkʌltʃərəl) /
of or relating to artistic or social pursuits or events considered to be valuable or enlightened
of or relating to a culture or civilization
(of certain varieties of plant) obtained by specialized breeding
Derived forms of cultural
- culturally, adverb
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