Cultural

//ˈkʌlt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective

1
Pertaining to culture.
"Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes."
2
Due to human activity.
"cultural lighting"

Adjective

1
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people wordnet
2
relating to the raising of plants or animals wordnet
3
of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society wordnet
4
of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors wordnet

Synonyms

autodidactic coeducational didactic disciplinary edifying educating

Example

"The amount of paper produced by a country is closely related to its cultural standards."

Etymology

From culture + -al.

Related phrases

cross-cultural cross-cultural communication cultural Bolshevism cultural Christian cultural Marxism cultural Marxist cultural anthropologist cultural anthropology cultural appropriation cultural appropriator cultural arbitrary cultural barbiturate

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