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| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breeding, education, sophistication |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, address, art, capacity, civilization, class, courtesy, cultivation, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, dress, elegance, elevation, enlightenment, erudition, experience, fashion, finish, gentility, grace, improvement, kindness, learning, manners, nobility, perception, polish, politeness, practice, proficiency, refinement, savoir-faire, science, skill, tact, training, aestheticism, good taste, 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: | civilization, convention, customs, development, folklore, habit, knowledge, lifestyle, mores, society, arts and sciences, ethnology, folkways, grounding, humanism, the arts, way of life |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, cultivation, farming, gardening, tending, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, raising |
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| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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: | cultivation, culture, horticulture, husbandry, agronomics, agronomy, tillage |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, education, environment, framework, history, practice, preparation, qualification, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing, accomplishments, acquirement, deeds, grounding, rearing |
| 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, refinement, training, upbringing, raising, rearing, schooling, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, majesty, merit, morality, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, station, stature, status, virtue, worth, courtliness, loftiness, nobleness, seemliness, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | background, brainwashing*, breeding, civilization, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, indoctrination, information, learning, literacy, nurture, preparation, reading, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, catechism, coaching, drilling, inculcation, learnedness, pedagogy, propagandism, proselytism, rearing, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, felicity, gentility, grace, grandeur, hauteur, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, symmetry, courtliness, exquisiteness, good taste, gracefulness, lushness, noblesse, ornateness, poshness, sumptuousness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | roughness, ugliness, crudeness, inelegance, poor taste |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | erudition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, enlightenment, knowledge, learning, literacy, lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarship, science, bookishness, brains, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, scholarliness, studiousness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | farming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | producing crops, raising animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, breeding, cultivation, culture, gardening, grazing, growing, harvesting, landscaping, operating, production, threshing, agronomics, agronomy, crop-raising, feeding, fertilizing, geoponics, gleaning, homesteading, hydroponics, ranching, reaping, seeding, share-cropping, soil culture, tillage |
| Main Entry: | gentility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sophistication, cultivation |
| Synonyms: | aristocracy, blue blood, civility, courtesy, culture, decorum, elegance, elite, etiquette, flower*, formality, gentry, good manners, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, quality, rank, refinement, respectability, society, upper class, courtliness, gentle birth, gentlefolk, good breeding, good family, high birth, mannerliness, optimacy, ruling class, upper crust, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | coarseness, roughness, crudeness, rusticity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heritage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's background, tradition |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, bequest, birthright, convention, culture, custom, endowment, estate, fashion, inheritance, legacy, lot, patrimony, portion, right, share, tradition, dowry, heirship, heritance |
| Main Entry: | ideology |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beliefs |
| Synonyms: | articles of faith, credo, creed, culture, dogma, outlook, philosophy, system, theory, view, Weltanschauung, ideas, principles, tenets |
| Main Entry: | learning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education, knowledge |
| Synonyms: | culture, erudition, information, literature, lore, research, scholarship, science, study, training, tuition, wisdom, acquirements, attainments, letters, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | manners |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | polite, refined social behavior |
| Synonyms: | amenities, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, ceremony, civilities, comportment, conduct, courtesy, culture, decorum, demeanor, deportment, dignity, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good breeding, good form, mien, mores, p's and q's, polish, politeness, politesse, propriety, protocol, refinement, social graces, sophistication, taste, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | population |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inhabitants of a place |
| Synonyms: | community, culture, folk, people, populace, public, society, state, citizenry, denizens, dwellers, natives, residents |
| Main Entry: | teaching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, discipline, enlightenment, guidance, instruction, learning, reading, training, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, coaching, drilling, schooling |
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