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cultureful en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *-fullaz Old English -ful Middle English -ful English -ful English cultureful From culture + -ful.

Meanings

1. Focused on culture.
   • If white middle classness is generic and empty, then charmed Appalachians can access meaning by loose association with less privileged “Appalachians” who supposedly exhibit a more colorful, cultureful way of life. 2011, Emily Satterwhite, Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction Since 1878:
   • If culture is externalized mind and mind is internalized culture (Cole, 1998), postmodern teaching is about mindful and "cultureful" learning. 2008, Lynne T. Díaz-Rico, Strategies for Teaching English Learners, page 65:
2. Pertaining to intellectual activities.
   • By linking these sub-nationalities to cultures and by exculuding black Jamaicans from his list, he also (perhaps unwittingly) invoked the British colonial ideology that positioned laboring groups arriving in Jamaica after the abolition of slavery as cultureful—that is, as coming from civilizations with ancient text-based religions—as compared to transplanted Africans, who were positions as cultureless and therefore eminently assimilable. 2004, Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Modern Blackness:
   • I am sure I'd feel oppressed in a system where so much of leisure activity is expected to be cultureful and self-improving. 195?, Stanford University. Libraries, Stanford Library Bulletin - Volume 4, page 58:
   • In fifteen years, you can bring up thy country And make your people work in a full symmetry With their cultureful socialist revolutionary And learn how to read, write and speak freely Know that their ideas are costlier than jewellery And work for their motherland patriotically 2017, Nadwan Rosetta, The Great Crush, page xl:

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