English Explanatory Dictionary

cultural

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Pertaining to culture.
  2. Due to human activity.

Pronunciation

/ˈkʌl.tʃ(ʊ.)ɹəl/ /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ə.)ɹəl/ En-us-cultural.ogg /kəl.tʃ(ʊ.).ɾəl/

Word forms

cultural more cultural most cultural

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English cultural From culture + -al.

Derived words

acculturalization acultural anticultural bicultural biocultural chronocultural cocultural contracultural countercultural cross-cultural cross-cultural communication cultural anthropologist cultural anthropology cultural appropriation cultural appropriator cultural arbitrary cultural barbiturate cultural Bolshevism cultural capital cultural center cultural centre cultural Christian cultural cringe cultural diffusion cultural divide cultural ecology cultural evolutionism cultural genocide cultural identity cultural imperialism culturalism culturalist culturality culturalization culturalize cultural learning cultural literacy culturally cultural Marxism cultural Marxist cultural mosaic culturalness cultural patrimony cultural pessimism cultural phylogenetics cultural practitioner cultural script cultural shock cultural studies cultural victory cultural wealth cybercultural deculturalization ecocultural econocultural ethnocultural extracultural geocultural herpetocultural historico-cultural
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