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cultural

cul·tur·al

cultural

 
 
pronunciation:
kuhl ch rl
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part of speech: adjective
definition: of or pertaining to culture.
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(adj.)cultural + noun adaptation, affair, affiliation, anthropologist, anthropology, artifact, aspect, assimilation, assumption, autonomy, awareness, background, barrier, belief, bias, boundary, capital, change, characteristic, competence, conservative, construct, context, continuity, criticism, critique, difference, dimension, discourse, diversity, divide, elite, evolution, exchange, expectation, expression, factor, gap, gender, geography, hegemony, heritage, historian, history, icon, ideal, identity, imperialism, implication, influence, institution, integration, landscape, legacy, literacy, meaning, milieu, myth, nationalism, norm, orientation, perspective, phenomenon, pluralism, practice, preservation, pride, production, relativism, representation, resistance, resource, revolution, root, sensitivity, setting, shift, significance, similarity, stereotype, survival, symbol, tie, tourism, tradition, trait, transformation, transmission, treasure, understanding, value, variation [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: culturally (adv.)
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The word cultural contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual Latin adjective-forming suffix that means pertaining to
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The suffix -al2, -ial attaches primarily to nouns (national , environmental ) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots (final , capital , comical ) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.