culturaladjective
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/cultural adjective (WAY OF LIFE)
B1 relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of a society:
The US is often accused of cultural imperialism.
Australia has its own cultural identity, which is very different from that of Britain.
cultural diversity/differences
cultural heritage (= ways of living and thinking that have existed for a long time in a society)
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- It is a study of the social and cultural milieu in which Michelangelo lived and worked.
- The country is now a cultural and social mosaic due to the influx of several different ethnic groups.
- The best films are those which transcend national or cultural barriers.
- The era was characterized by political and cultural turbulence.
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Lifestyles & their study
- anthropogenic
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- culture
- demographer
- demographics
- ethnological
- ethnology
- hermetic
- lifestyle
- living
- lot
- meme
- milieu
- suburbia
- the global village
- trend
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
- westernize
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cultural adjective (ART)
B1 relating to music, art, theatre, literature, etc.:
cultural activities
a cultural centre (= a place with a lot of museums, theatres, etc.)
a cultural desert/wasteland (= a place without museums, theatres, etc.)
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- The minister said that the government planned to develop exchanges with other countries, particularly in cultural, scientific and economic spheres.
- According to Marxist theory, a society's superstructure is its legal, social, cultural and political institutions, which are based on its economic systems.
- They organized a series of cultural events.
- There is an annual cultural exchange between our cities.
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Art & culture
- aesthetic
- art gallery
- artsy
- arty
- barbarian
- composition
- culture
- efflorescence
- esthete
- esthetic
- highbrow
- lowbrow
- middlebrow
- philistine
- pop culture
- soul
- soul food
- soulful
culturally
adverb uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl.i/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl.i/
B2
a culturally diverse society