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cultures

NOUN

breeding, education, sophistication

Synonyms

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ability art civilization experience fashion perception practice science skill

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accomplishment address capacity class courtesy cultivation delicacy dignity discrimination dress elegance elevation enlightenment erudition finish gentility grace improvement kindness learning manners nobility polish politeness proficiency refinement savoir-faire tact training urbanity

WEAK

aestheticism good taste

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorance inability inexperience

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bad manners clumsiness coarseness crudeness harm hurt impoliteness incompetence inelegance ineptness roughness rudeness tactlessness

NOUN

ideas, values of a people

Synonyms

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civilization development folklore habit knowledge lifestyle society way of life

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convention customs ethnology grounding humanism mores

WEAK

arts and sciences folkways the arts

NOUN

development of land

Synonyms

STRONGEST

agriculture

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agrology agronomy cultivation farming gardening raising tending

WEAK

agronomics

Example Sentences

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The study included experiments in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, investigations using human cell cultures, and analysis of extensive clinical datasets.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

How did he gain the courage to write about people of other races, cultures and genders?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

"There are different cultures and it just brings us all together."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

I first came to wear the badge of foodie in college in the aughts, a time when the term meant leading with curiosity, a vector for discovering and exploring new cultures and ideas.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

While the music of other cultures will sound different and have different meanings and emotions associated with it, every culture makes it.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin