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| 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 |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | custom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual, traditional action |
| Synonyms: | attitude, canon, ceremony, character, convention, design, etiquette, fashion, form, formality, manner, matter of course, method, mode, mold, mores, observance, observation, pattern, performance, policy, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, rite, routine, rule, second nature*, style, system, taste, type, unwritten law, usage, use, vogue, way, conventionalism, customariness, dictates, established way, folkways, inheritence, unwritten rule |
| Antonyms: | departure, deviation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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