Cultural
['kʌltʃ(ə)r(ə)l] or ['kʌltʃərəl]
Definition
(adj.) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; 'influenced by ethnic and cultural ties'- J.F.Kennedy; 'ethnic food' .
(adj.) relating to the raising of plants or animals; 'a cultural variety' .
(adj.) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society; 'cultural roots' .
(adj.) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors; 'cultural events'; 'a person of broad cultural interests' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to culture.
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Examples
- The destinies of society are felt to be too solidly set in industrial conditions to allow any cultural direction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such knowing is depreciated, if not despised, as purely utilitarian, lacking in cultural significance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- AS matter of fact, any subject is cultural in the degree in which it is apprehended in its widest possible range of meanings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A professedly cultural education is peculiarly exposed to this danger. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I am not a lover of the cultural activities of our schools and colleges, still less am I a lover of shallow specialists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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