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cultural

adjective

Simple meaning

Due to human activity.

Pronunciation

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ˈkʌltʃɚəl

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

adjective

  1. technical

    Due to human activity.

  2. Pertaining to culture.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
A2 · Elementary
Frequency
Very Common
Typical Use
Everyday English

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: (technical) Due to human activity.

Used this way, cultural is a specialist word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in technical or specialist writing contexts.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Specialist/technical
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Specialized
Connotation
Clinical and technical
Usage feel
Technical and specialized

Where it naturally appears

  • Technical/specialist writing

Usage note

In general conversation this sense usually needs explaining — outside its field, people reach for a plainer word.

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More ways to use cultural

  • “Visiting historical sites is a great way to experience different cultural traditions.”adjective

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Common Patterns and Combinations

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cultural revolutioncultural identitycultural diversitycultural valuescultural heritagecultural historycultural lifecultural context

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Word Family

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Word family

Words built from the same root.

  • culturallyadverbDerived adverb

    With regard to a culture.

Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • cultural attachenounCompound term

    An attache who is a specialist in cultural matters.

  • cultural movementnounCompound term

    A group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals.

  • cultural revolutionnounCompound term

    A radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard.

  • cultural anthropologistnounCompound term

    An anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems.

  • cultural anthropologynounCompound term

    The branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society.

  • great proletarian cultural revolutionnounCompound term

    A radical reform in China initiated by Mao Zedong in 1965 and carried out largely by the Red Guard.

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