material culture

noun Sociology.

the aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by a society.

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Compare nonmaterial culture.

Origin of material culture

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby material culture

materfamilias, materia alba, materia medica, material, material cause, material culture, material equivalence, material implication, material mode, materialism, materialist
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