Kultur

[ koo l-toor ]

/ kʊlˈtur /

(in Nazi Germany) native culture, held to be superior to that of other countries and subordinating the individual to national interests.

a civilization characteristic of a time or a people.

Example sentences from the Web for kultur

It is (p. 60) the bloom of a civilization in which the savage adherent of Kultur recognizes a lasting antagonist.

Alsace-Lorraine |Daniel Blumenthal.
But this British self-consciousness is no mere fluffy gaucherie, it is our special form of what Germans would call "Kultur."

Another Sheaf |John Galsworthy
Within an hour of my arrival I was treated to a taste of one of the forms of German kultur which was new at the time.

A Yankee in the Trenches |R. Derby Holmes
They are aggressively German in sentiment, language, character and Kultur.

England and Germany |Emile Joseph Dillon

In the years of Kultur, they had forgotten what honor was like.

Lest We Forget |John Gilbert Thompson

Kultur

/ (kʊlˈtʊə) /

(often used ironically) German civilization, esp as characterized by authoritarianism and earnestness

German, from Latin cultūra culture