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Cultural

adjective

Of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. "A person of broad cultural interests"

Denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people. Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical. "Ethnic food"

Of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society.

Relating to the raising of plants or animals.

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... struggle with anti-democratic influences from the Right as well as with the destructive forces from the left; the strengthening of the ties between the rear and the fighting front, and the support of the army as the cultural force which is reconquering the violated rights of the people to the formation of a ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... because of: (1) its unusual narrator—an embroidered pocket-handkerchief—that is surely the first of its kind; (2) its critique of economic exploitation in France and of the crass commercial climate of ante-bellum America; and, (3) its constant exploration of American social, moral, and cultural issues. This said, it must be admitted that the telling of Adrienne's sad plight in Paris becomes a bit overwrought; and that the inept wooing of Mary Monson by the social cad Tom Thurston is so drawn out and sarcastic as to ...

— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper

... identify their interests with those of the Washington slums, or even with those of the fox-hunting Piedmont gentry just across the Blue Ridge. Coalmining Potomac Appalachia has more common economic and cultural outlook with eastern Kentucky than with the Potomac Tidewater; southern Maryland and the Northern Neck and the Monocacy's dairy farmers all have their own ways of interpreting human existence and defending themselves against its pitfalls. Within ...

— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... gospel. And one Kate Brophy, cook at the Whipple New Place, said of its apostle that he was "a sahft piece of furniture." Merle was sensitive to these little winds of captiousness. He was now convinced that Newbern would never be a cultural centre. There was a ...

— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... His cultural ideal was, and is, of the West, of Rome of France—AND of Himself; and he has kept it inviolate through military and political disaster, through ...

— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy

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