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cultures

NOUN

breeding, education, sophistication

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ability art civilization experience fashion perception practice science skill

STRONG

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

STRONG

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

NOUN

ideas, values of a people

Synonyms

STRONGEST

civilization development folklore habit knowledge lifestyle society way of life

STRONG

convention customs ethnology grounding humanism mores

WEAK

arts and sciences folkways the arts

NOUN

development of land

Synonyms

STRONGEST

agriculture

STRONG

agrology agronomy cultivation farming gardening raising tending

WEAK

agronomics

Example Sentences

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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

This widened the focus to further sites around the Lower Rhine–Meuse area – wetlands and coastal areas as well as rivers – spanning the late hunter-gatherer cultures to the bronze age.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari