cultural

From culture + -al.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ʊ.)ɹəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl.tʃ(ə.)ɹəl/

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• (India) IPA^(key): /kəl.tʃ(ʊ.).ɾəl/
• Hyphenation: cul‧tur‧al

cultural (comparative more cultural, superlative most cultural)

1. Pertaining to culture.
   • 2013 July-August, Sarah Glaz, “Ode to Prime Numbers”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

     Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

   • 2025 June 26, Marnie Hunter, “This upstate New York town is a showstopper for scenery”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 June 2025:

     Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.

2. (technical) Due to human activity.

   cultural lighting

• IPA^(key): /kultuˈɾal/ [kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ral

cultural (epicene, plural culturales)

1. cultural

• cultura

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [kul.tuˈɾal]

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• Rhymes: -al

cultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural culturals)

1. cultural

• culturalment
• intercultural
• multicultural
• sociocultural

• cultura

• “cultural”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cultural”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cultural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cultural”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From cultura +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /kultuˈɾal/ [kul̪.t̪uˈɾɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ral

cultural m or f (plural culturais)

1. cultural (relative or belonging to culture, civilization and its manifestations)

• “cultural”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

• culturau (Gascony)

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cultural m (feminine singular culturala, masculine plural culturals, feminine plural culturalas)

1. cultural

• pluricultural

• cultura

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cul‧tu‧ral

cultural m or f (plural culturais, comparable, comparative mais cultural, superlative o mais cultural or culturalíssimo)

1. cultural (pertaining to culture)

• “cultural”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cultural”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French culturel. By surface analysis, cultură +‎ -al.

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cultural m or n (feminine singular culturală, masculine plural culturali, feminine/neuter plural culturale)

1. cultural

• anticultural
• culturaliza

From cultura +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /kultuˈɾal/ [kul̪.t̪uˈɾal]

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cul‧tu‧ral

cultural m or f (masculine and feminine plural culturales)

1. (relational) culture; cultural (of or relating to culture)

• “cultural”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025