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cultureshed

cultureshed noun: a region felt to have close cultural affinities and relations.

Noun

cultureshed (plural culturesheds)

  1. A region felt to have close cultural affinities and relations.
    • The tunnel, the highest in the Alps at 5,971 feet, marks both a watershed and cultureshed. On the north, all the water flows to the North Sea; on the south, the water goes to the Black Sea. […] And here the German and Romansch languages give way to Italian.1997 July 27, Carma Wadley, “Switzerland's Bernina Express”, in Deseret News
    • The planning committee spent a great deal of time exploring the idea of a regional “cultureshed.” Cultural heritage does not usually begin and end at city, county, or state borders. As a watershed is based on the natural flow of rivers and streams, the concept of a “cultureshed” encourages us to...2000, Marilyn Sifford, "Issue-Oriented Future Search: Creating a Frame," Future Searching No. 19, Summer/Fall 2000.

Examples of cultureshed in a sentence

  • McKibben makes the great lake a hinge that binds the long lands on either side of it into a “cultureshed” bounded not by the cartography of politics but by his own deep knowledge of it.2005, Amy Godine, "Wandering Home, Author: Bill McKibben" (review), Adirondack Explorer March 2005
  • Through a preliminary exploration of the culturesheds of Toronto and Vancouver, this book has shown how detrimental it can be […]2013, Alison L. Bain, Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs, page 212:
  • In the late ’90s, […] Jay Salinas, Wormfarm co-founder, coined the term “cultureshed” defined as: 1.2014 October, Donna Neuwirth, Jay Salinas, “Making and Remaking Land-Oriented Definitions of Place”, in Voice of the River Valley:

Forms of cultureshed

pluralculturesheds

Origin of cultureshed

From culture + shed, on the model of watershed.

Questions about cultureshed

What does cultureshed mean?
Cultureshed means a region felt to have close cultural affinities and relations.
How do you use cultureshed in a sentence?
McKibben makes the great lake a hinge that binds the long lands on either side of it into a “cultureshed” bounded not by the cartography of politics but by his own deep knowledge of it.
What part of speech is cultureshed?
Cultureshed is a noun.
What is the plural of cultureshed?
The plural of cultureshed is culturesheds.

Words near cultureshed in the dictionary

  1. culturemes
  2. cultures
  3. cultures of death
  4. culturescape
  5. culturescapes
  6. cultureshed
  7. culturesheds
  8. culturette
  9. culturettes
  10. cultureware
  11. culturewide

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