Kultur

[ kool-toor ]

/ kʊlˈtur /

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noun German.

(in Nazi Germany) native culture, held to be superior to that of other countries and subordinating the individual to national interests.

culture (def. 4).

a civilization characteristic of a time or a people.

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Words nearby Kultur

kuletuk, kulfi, kulich, Kulla, Kullervo, Kultur, Kulturkampf, Kulturkreis, Kulun, Kum, Kumamoto

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How to use Kultur in a sentence

Naval "Kultur" began the day before yesterday, and the report to-day is that a Norwegian neutral was torpedoed.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie
Now it was merely so much waste land, dedicated to uselessness by efficiency and kultur.
The Glory of The Coming|Irvin S. Cobb
Kultur is an abomination; philology is an abomination, all repressive uniforming education is an evil.
Instigations|Ezra Pound
The French, however, have been very loth to touch this unclean product of German Kultur.
The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs|Lucien Wolf

We dont want your Kaiser, nor your Kultur, nor your Kolossal, nor your capital.
Best Stories of the 1914 European War|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Kultur

Kultur

/ (kʊlˈtʊə) /

noun

(often used ironically) German civilization, esp as characterized by authoritarianism and earnestness

Word Origin for Kultur

German, from Latin cultūra culture

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