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cultural literacy

cultural literacy noun: knowledge of and ability to discuss the history of and major concepts underlying a culture, particularly one's own and those of one's peers.

Noun

cultural literacy (countable and uncountable, plural cultural literacies)

  1. Knowledge of and ability to discuss the history of and major concepts underlying a culture, particularly one's own and those of one's peers.
    • Critics of contemporary culture generally posit a steep decline in cultural literacy.

Forms of cultural literacy

pluralcultural literacies

Questions about cultural literacy

What does cultural literacy mean?
Cultural literacy means knowledge of and ability to discuss the history of and major concepts underlying a culture, particularly one's own and those of one's peers.
What part of speech is cultural literacy?
Cultural literacy is a noun.
What is the plural of cultural literacy?
The plural of cultural literacy is cultural literacies.

Words near cultural literacy in the dictionary

  1. cultural identities
  2. cultural identity
  3. cultural imperialism
  4. cultural learning
  5. cultural literacies
  6. cultural literacy
  7. cultural marxism
  8. cultural Marxist
  9. cultural Marxists
  10. cultural mosaic
  11. cultural mosaics

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