| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding, education, sophistication |
Synonyms: |
ability, accomplishment, address, aestheticism, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, good taste, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, urbanity |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideas, values of a people |
Synonyms: |
arts and sciences, civilization, convention, customs, development, ethnology, folklore, folkways, grounding, habit, humanism, knowledge, lifestyle, mores, society, the arts, way of life |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land |
Synonyms: |
agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, farming, gardening, raising, tending |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming, crop production |
Synonyms: |
agronomics, agronomy, cultivation, culture, horticulture, husbandry, tillage |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
Synonyms: |
accomplishments, acquirement, actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, deeds, education, environment, framework, grounding, history, practice, preparation, qualification, rearing, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing |
Antonyms: |
foreground |
| Main Entry: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, raising, rearing, refinement, schooling, training, upbringing, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
Synonyms: |
address, affability, amenities, amiability, attentiveness, ceremony, chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, gentleness, good behavior, good breeding, graciousness, indulgence, kindness, polish, politeness, refinement, respect, reverence, solicitude, suavity, sympathy, tact, thoughtfulness, urbanity |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, discourtesy, impoliteness, pompousness, rudeness, unmannerliness |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
Synonyms: |
address, cachet, character, consequence, courtliness, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, loftiness, majesty, merit, morality, nobleness, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, seemliness, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, stateliness, station, stature, status, sublimity, virtue, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
lowliness |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
Synonyms: |
apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |