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ur-cultures

ur-cultures is the plural of ur-culture.

Meaning of ur-culture

Noun

ur-culture (plural ur-cultures)

  1. A theoretical original culture.
    • Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon.2009, William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, page 143

Questions about ur-cultures

What is ur-cultures the plural of?
Ur-cultures is the plural of ur-culture.

Words near ur-cultures in the dictionary

  1. ur-ancestors
  2. ur-continent
  3. ur-continents
  4. ur-cool
  5. ur-culture
  6. ur-cultures
  7. ur-form
  8. ur-forms
  9. Ur-Germanic
  10. ur-hero
  11. ur-heroes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ur-cultures (page history and authors); ur-culture (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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