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cultural
What does cultural mean?
cultural (adjective): denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce cultural?
/ˈkʌltʃəɹəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does cultural come from?
From culture + -al.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to cultural
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “cultural” mean?
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
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not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation
Not quite: that's what strange means.
having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory
Not quite: that's what ordinary means.
bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable
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