cultural
Syllables: cul·tur·alUK/ˈkʌl.tʃ(ʊ.)ɹəl//ˈkʌl.tʃ(ə.)ɹəl/
cultural adjective: pertaining to culture.
Adjective
cultural (comparative more cultural, superlative most cultural)
- Pertaining to culture.
- However, and this was an important point in Gramsci's argument, the workers could only win if they achieved cultural 'hegemony' before attaining political power.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in...
- 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.2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
- Due to human activity.
- cultural lighting
cultural meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
cultural in Hindi
- pertaining to culture
- सांस्कृतिक sānskŕtik
cultural in Tamil
- பண்பாட்டு
cultural in Urdu
- pertaining to culture
- ثقافتی saqāfatī
cultural in Bengali
- pertaining to culture
- সাংস্কৃতিক śaṅskritik, তামাদ্দুনিক tamaddunik, রসমী rośomi
More languagesFewer languages
- cultural in Telugu
- సాంస్కృతిక sāṁskr̥tika
- cultural in Malayalam
- സാംസ്കാരിക sāṁskārika
- cultural in Kannada
- ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ, ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ, ಕಲೆ, ಸಂಗೀತ ಮತ್ತು ರಂಗಭೂಮಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ
- cultural in Pashto
- ثقافتي saqāfatí, فرهنګي farhangí, کلتوري kolturí, کلچري kalčarí
- cultural in Arabic
- ثَقَافِيّ ṯaqāfiyy, مَدَنِيّ madaniyy
- cultural in Indonesian
- kultural
- cultural in Persian
- فرهنگی farhangi, مدنی madani
- cultural in Thai
- วัฒนธรรม wát-tá-ná-tam
- cultural in Vietnamese
- văn hoá
Examples of cultural in a sentence
- Interpreters need a good amount of cultural capital in order to function efficiently in the profession.
- The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
- Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
Forms of cultural
| comparative | more cultural |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cultural |
Origin of cultural
From culture + -al.
Words formed from cultural
- 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 Bolshevik
- 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
Phrases with cultural
Questions about cultural
- What does cultural mean?
- Cultural means pertaining to culture.
- What is cultural in Hindi?
- Cultural in Hindi is सांस्कृतिक (sānskŕtik). See Cultural meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cultural?
- Cultural is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cultural?
- Cultural is pronounced /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ʊ.)ɹəl/ (UK).
Words near cultural in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cultural (page history and authors); cultural (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); సాంస్కృతిక (Telugu) (page history and authors); cultural (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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