adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to culture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cultural
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ʊ.)ɹəl/
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General-American: /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ə.)ɹəl/
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India: /kəl.tʃ(ʊ.).ɾəl/
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CMU ARPABET: K AH1 L CH ER0 AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Due to human activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technical
Examples
- cultural lighting
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
relating to the raising of plants or animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a cultural variety
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- cultural roots
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 5
of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- cultural events
- a person of broad cultural interests
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people- J.F.Kennedy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- influenced by ethnic and cultural ties
- ethnic food
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kwélh1eti Proto-Italic *kwelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English -al English cultural From culture + -al.
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: kultureel — pertaining to culture
- Albanian: kulturor — pertaining to culture
- Amharic: የባህል (yäbahl) — pertaining to culture
- Arabic: ثَقَافِيّ (ṯaqāfiyy) — pertaining to culture
- Arabic: مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy) — pertaining to culture
- Armenian: մշակութային (mšakutʻayin) — pertaining to culture
- Asturian: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Azerbaijani: mədəni — pertaining to culture
- Belarusian: культу́рны (kulʹtúrny) — pertaining to culture
- Bengali: সাংস্কৃতিক (śaṅskritik) — pertaining to culture
- Bengali: তামাদ্দুনিক (tamaddunik) — pertaining to culture
- Bengali: রসমী (rośomi) — pertaining to culture
- Bulgarian: култу́рен (kultúren) — pertaining to culture
- Catalan: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Chinese Cantonese: 文化 (man4 faa3) — pertaining to culture
- Chinese: 文化 (zh-min-nan) — pertaining to culture
- Chinese Mandarin: 文化 (wénhuà) — pertaining to culture
- Czech: kulturní — pertaining to culture
- Danish: kulturel — pertaining to culture
- Dutch: cultureel — pertaining to culture
- Esperanto: kultura — pertaining to culture
- Finnish: kulttuurinen — pertaining to culture
- French: culturel — pertaining to culture
- Galician: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Georgian: კულტურული (ḳulṭuruli) — pertaining to culture
- Georgian: კულტურის (ḳulṭuris) — pertaining to culture
- German: kulturell — pertaining to culture
- German: Kultur- — pertaining to culture
- Haitian Creole: kiltirèl — pertaining to culture
- Hebrew: תַּרְבּוּתִי (tarbutí) — pertaining to culture
- Hindi: सांस्कृतिक (sānskŕtik) — pertaining to culture
- Hungarian: kulturális — pertaining to culture
- Indonesian: kultural — pertaining to culture
- Interlingua: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Italian: culturale — pertaining to culture
- Japanese: 文化的な (bunkateki na) — pertaining to culture
- Japanese: 文化の (bunka no) — pertaining to culture
- Kazakh: мәдени (mädeni) — pertaining to culture
- Korean: 문화적인 (munhwajeog-in) — pertaining to culture
- Northern Kurdish: çandeyî — pertaining to culture
- Northern Kurdish: kultûrî — pertaining to culture
- Northern Kurdish: ferhengî — pertaining to culture
- Northern Kurdish: medenî — pertaining to culture
- Kyrgyz: маданий (madaniy) — pertaining to culture
- Kyrgyz: маданияттуу (madaniyattuu) — pertaining to culture
- Lao: ວັດທະນະທໍາ (wat tha na tham) — pertaining to culture
- Macedonian: култу́рен (kultúren) — pertaining to culture
- Malayalam: സാംസ്കാരിക (sāṁskārika) — pertaining to culture
- Mongolian: соёлын (sojolyn) — pertaining to culture
- Norman: tchultuthel — pertaining to culture
- Norwegian Bokmål: kulturell — pertaining to culture
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kulturell — pertaining to culture
- Occitan: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Pashto: ثقافتي (saqāfatí) — pertaining to culture
- Pashto: فرهنګي (farhangí) — pertaining to culture
- Pashto: کلتوري (kolturí) — pertaining to culture
- Pashto: کلچري (kalčarí) — pertaining to culture
- Persian: فرهنگی (farhangi) — pertaining to culture
- Persian: مدنی (madani) — pertaining to culture
- Polish: kulturalny — pertaining to culture
- Polish: kulturowy — pertaining to culture
- Portuguese: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Romanian: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Russian: культу́рный (kulʹtúrnyj) — pertaining to culture
- Scottish Gaelic: cultarail — pertaining to culture
- Serbo-Croatian: ку̀лтӯран — pertaining to culture
- Serbo-Croatian: kùltūran — pertaining to culture
- Slovak: kultúrny — pertaining to culture
- Slovene: kulturen — pertaining to culture
- Lower Sorbian: kulturny — pertaining to culture
- Spanish: cultural — pertaining to culture
- Swedish: kulturell — pertaining to culture
- Tajik: фарҳангӣ (farhangi) — pertaining to culture
- Tajik: маданӣ (madani) — pertaining to culture
- Thai: วัฒนธรรม (wát-tá-ná-tam) — pertaining to culture
- Turkish: kültürel — pertaining to culture
- Turkmen: medeni — pertaining to culture
- Ukrainian: культу́рний (kulʹtúrnyj) — pertaining to culture
- Urdu: ثقافتی (saqāfatī) — pertaining to culture
- Uyghur: مەدەنىي (medeniy) — pertaining to culture
- Uzbek: madaniy — pertaining to culture
- Vietnamese: văn hoá — pertaining to culture
- Welsh: diwylliannol — pertaining to culture
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