Meanings
nounculturalist (plural culturalists)
plural culturalists
- One who subscribes to culturalism.
1 more example
Do ideals, symbols and beliefs lead people to act as they do? Or are the wellsprings of action and the drivers of history less ethereal: money, fear, the thirst for power, circumstance and opportunity, with culture as an afterthought? Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists.
2018 September 14, Neil Gross, “Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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
- Englishculturalist
Translations
German Kulturalist
- Kulturalistone who subscribes to culturalism
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APA
culturalist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culturalist
MLA
“culturalist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culturalist. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “culturalist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culturalist.
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