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cultural patrimonies

cultural patrimonies is the plural of cultural patrimony.

Meaning of cultural patrimony

Noun

cultural patrimony (countable and uncountable, plural cultural patrimonies)

  1. Objects possessing continuing cultural, traditional, or historical importance to the heritage of a group, particularly those considered inalienable by the group as of the time the objects had been separated from the group or from the historical setting of the objects.
    • For the New Party, the Palace Museum protests were a triumph....And by consistently calling the Palace collection "the Chinese cultural patrimony," New Party leaders and other protesters were able to rally the sympathy of a surprisingly large population that identified such material as key to...1996, Andrew Solomon, The New York Times, Don't Mess With Our Cultural Patrimony!

Questions about cultural patrimonies

What is cultural patrimonies the plural of?
Cultural patrimonies is the plural of cultural patrimony.

Words near cultural patrimonies in the dictionary

  1. cultural marxism
  2. cultural Marxist
  3. cultural Marxists
  4. cultural mosaic
  5. cultural mosaics
  6. cultural patrimonies
  7. cultural patrimony
  8. cultural pessimism
  9. cultural phylogenetics
  10. cultural practitioner
  11. cultural practitioners

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