Meanings
comparative more cultural · superlative most cultural
- Pertaining to culture.
However, and this was an important point in Gramsci's argument, the workers could only win if they achieved cultural 'hegemony' before attaining political power.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2412 more examples
Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.
2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2013Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.
2025 June 26, Marnie Hunter, “This upstate New York town is a showstopper for scenery”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2025 - engineeringDue to human activity.
cultural lighting
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivedenoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷélh₁eti
- Proto-Italic*kʷelō
- Latincolō
- Latincultūra
- Middle Frenchculture
- Englishculture
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishcultural
Translations
Afrikaans kultureel
- kultureelpertaining to culture
Arabic ثَقَافِيّ, مَدَنِيّ
- ثَقَافِيّ (ṯaqāfiyy)pertaining to culture
- مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy)pertaining to culture
Bengali সাংস্কৃতিক, তামাদ্দুনিক
- সাংস্কৃতিক (śaṅskritik)pertaining to culture
- তামাদ্দুনিক (tamaddunik)pertaining to culture
- রসমী (rośomi)pertaining to culture
Bulgarian култу́рен
- култу́рен (kultúren)pertaining to culture
Catalan cultural
- culturalpertaining to culture
Chinese Cantonese 文化
- 文化 (man⁴ faa³)pertaining to culture
Chinese Mandarin 文化
- 文化 (wénhuà)pertaining to culture
Czech kulturní
- kulturnípertaining to culture
Danish kulturel
- kulturelpertaining to culture
Dutch cultureel
- cultureelpertaining to culture
Esperanto kultura
- kulturapertaining to culture
Finnish kulttuurinen
- kulttuurinenpertaining to culture
French culturel
- culturelpertaining to culture
German kulturell, Kultur-
- kulturellpertaining to culture
- Kultur-pertaining to culture
Hebrew תַּרְבּוּתִי
- תַּרְבּוּתִי (tarbutí)pertaining to culture
Hindi सांस्कृतिक
- सांस्कृतिक (sānskŕtik)pertaining to culture
Hungarian kulturális
- kulturálispertaining to culture
Indonesian kultural
- kulturalpertaining to culture
Italian culturale
- culturalepertaining to culture
Japanese 文化的な, 文化の
- 文化的な (bunkateki na)pertaining to culture
- 文化の (bunka no)pertaining to culture
Korean 문화적인
- 문화적인 (munhwajeog-in)pertaining to culture
Norwegian Bokmål kulturell
- kulturellpertaining to culture
Persian فرهنگی, مدنی
- فرهنگی (farhangi)pertaining to culture
- مدنی (madani)pertaining to culture
Polish kulturalny, kulturowy
- kulturalnypertaining to culture
- kulturowypertaining to culture
Portuguese cultural
- culturalpertaining to culture
Romanian cultural
- culturalpertaining to culture
Russian культу́рный
- культу́рный (kulʹtúrnyj)pertaining to culture
Scottish Gaelic cultarail
- cultarailpertaining to culture
Slovak kultúrny
- kultúrnypertaining to culture
Spanish cultural
- culturalpertaining to culture
Swedish kulturell
- kulturellpertaining to culture
Thai วัฒนธรรม
- วัฒนธรรม (wát-tá-ná-tam)pertaining to culture
Turkish kültürel
- kültürelpertaining to culture
Ukrainian культу́рний
- культу́рний (kulʹtúrnyj)pertaining to culture
Urdu ثقافتی
- ثقافتی (saqāfatī)pertaining to culture
Vietnamese văn hoá
- văn hoápertaining to culture
Welsh diwylliannol
- diwylliannolpertaining to culture
Cite this entry
cultural. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural
“cultural.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cultural,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cultural.
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