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CULTURALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does culturally mean?
• CULTURALLY (adverb)
The adverb CULTURALLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: CULTURALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With regard to a culture
Context example:
culturally integrated
Pertainym:
cultural (of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society)
Context examples
A gene mutation observed with high frequency in a group that is or was geographically or culturally isolated, in which one or more of the ancestors was a carrier of the mutant gene.
(Founder Mutation, NCI Dictionary)
A general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and the United States.
(Inuit, NCI Thesaurus)
It is the first to apply the latest high-quality sequencing technology to such a large and diverse set of humans, covering 929 genomes from 54 geographically, linguistically and culturally diverse populations from across the globe.
(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)
People in the Sonoran Desert and Tonto Basin, in what is today Arizona, were more culturally advanced, with irrigation, ball courts, and eventually elevated platform mounds and compounds housing elite families.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
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