Kultur
(in Nazi Germany) native culture, held to be superior to that of other countries and subordinating the individual to national interests.
a civilization characteristic of a time or a people.
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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 LaurieNow it was merely so much waste land, dedicated to uselessness by efficiency and Kultur.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. CobbKultur is an abomination; philology is an abomination, all repressive uniforming education is an evil.
Instigations | Ezra PoundThe French, however, have been very loth to touch this unclean product of German Kultur.
The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs | Lucien WolfWe 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
/ (kʊlˈtʊə) /
(often used ironically) German civilization, esp as characterized by authoritarianism and earnestness
Origin of Kultur
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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