Ur-culture

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A theoretical original culture.

    "Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon."

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"Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon."

Etymology

From ur- + culture.

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