Culture and Literacy

Culture

Culture noun - A high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts.

Usage example: because of its wide reputation as a place of culture, Boston became known as “the Athens of America”

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Literacy and culture are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Literacy" instead a noun "Culture".

Nearby Words: cultured, cultural, cult, culturally

Literacy noun - The understanding and information gained from being educated.

Usage example: he impressed everyone with his general literacy as well as his natural intelligence

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Culture and literacy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Culture" instead a noun "Literacy".

Nearby Words: literature, literate

high	high culture	high literacy
new	new culture	new literacy

Taylor is sitting over Ruthie's sick body, and threatens to get the Sheriff fired if he doesn't have the Bat Boy killed.Over the next eight weeks, the Parker family teaches Edgar to speak, and he reaches a high level of culture and literacy, and becomes a devout Christian.

Source: Theatre / Bat Boy: The Musical
Barrayar has been isolated from Galactic culture for centuries and reverted to medieval levelnote armored knights, later muzzle-loaded guns; lack of literacy; superstitions.

Source: Eternal English
And literacy is very dependent on the specific culture and time period, often proportional to general standards of living.

Source: Future Imperfect

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