cultural

[kuhl-cher-uhl] / ˈkʌl tʃər əl /

ADJECTIVE

educational, enlightening

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artistic developmental

WEAK

adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching expanding glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting polishing promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

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Showered with honors and tributes, he had begun to seem eternal, a cultural constant.

From Los Angeles Times

If you didn’t, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of them — a cultural divide I didn’t fully understand until I left home.

From Salon

Their under-representation at leadership level reflects "deep-rooted cultural and structural barriers", a statement from the presidency said last year.

From BBC

Quangos - or arm's length bodies - are organisations such as regulators, cultural institutions and advisory bodies which are funded by taxpayers but not directly controlled from Whitehall.

From BBC

It is comprised of the British Council, the UK's national cultural and educational organisation; Cambridge University Press and Assessments; and IDP, a large Australian education company.

From BBC

cultural

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