Antonyms for culture

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kuhl-cher

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌl tʃər

Definition of culture

Origin : mid-15c., "the tilling of land," from Middle French culture and directly from Latin cultura "a cultivating, agriculture," figuratively "care, culture, an honoring," from past participle stem of colere "tend, guard, cultivate, till" (see cult). The figurative sense of "cultivation through education" is first attested c.1500. Meaning "the intellectual side of civilization" is from 1805; that of "collective customs and achievements of a people" is from 1867.
For without culture or holiness, which are always the gift of a very few, a man may renounce wealth or any other external thing, but he cannot renounce hatred, envy, jealousy, revenge. Culture is the sanctity of the intellect. [William Butler Yeats]
Slang culture vulture is from 1947. Culture shock first recorded 1940.

noun breeding, education, sophistication
noun ideas, values of a people
noun development of land

Example sentences :

Give everyone his culture, and no one will offer him more than his due.
Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

I have said of myself that I was one who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

Even in Boston, mellowed though it was by culture, the classical was at a discount.
Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro

All that has been said, then, tends to enforce the culture of the imagination.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

Certainly, real freedom and equality of rights presuppose some degree of culture.
Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka

Not a man of culture, but bright as sunshine and straight as a rule.
Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant

They think and act in the same manner as to all the other articles of culture in this country.
Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz

Did they wish only to learn the extent of our knowledge, our culture?
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

He began to feel bitterly about Ireland and her indifference to culture and beauty.
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

Synonyms for culture

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