Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Culture; civilization.
- noun German culture and civilization as idealized by the exponents of German imperialism during the Hohenzollern and Nazi regimes.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
kultur .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Kultur" is not the word that comes to Schiller's mind as he searches for some alternative to "Ausbildung"
Rei Terada 2008
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Finally, I wonder a little that the authors, who must have known better, should have helped to perpetuate the popular misconception by which the German word "Kultur" is regarded as the equivalent of our "culture."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916 Various 1898
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So insidious and far reaching had become the inculcation of false philosophies summed up in the general term Kultur, that the subjects of the autocratic-ridden empires believed they were being guided by benign influences.
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I'm just as much of a fan of Kultur [Terry means, I think, Regietheater, which some would be loath to call Kultur - pjs] as anyone else, especially of the Chereau [Ring,] but not unlike liberation or feminist theology, when you take something that strives for or encompasses the divine, and reduce it to the purely socio-economic level, you loose something of the transcendence of the work.
The Ring Patrick J. Smith 2006
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I'm just as much of a fan of Kultur [Terry means, I think, Regietheater, which some would be loath to call Kultur - pjs] as anyone else, especially of the Chereau [Ring,] but not unlike liberation or feminist theology, when you take something that strives for or encompasses the divine, and reduce it to the purely socio-economic level, you loose something of the transcendence of the work.
Archive 2006-08-01 Patrick J. Smith 2006
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This is the standard of the Empire as against that of Kultur, which is the suppression of the weak, the slaughter of the innocent, and the elimination of the small.
Over the Top With the Third Australian Division G. P. Cuttriss
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So you can trademark a video line called Kultur, German for culture, but not Culture.
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The concept of "Kultur" emerged in Germany in the 1880's after the unification of the empire as the embodiment of the type of civilization promoted by the leadership of Prussia.
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This process of cleansing our 'Kultur' will have to be applied in practically all spheres.
reich12 1969
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For all their "Kultur" Germans are gross, and to the last degree inartistic.
A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson
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