ur-culture
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Heroic cultures are inevitably presented as ur-cultures, as something not so much lived in as looked back upon."
- "The Satsumon culture itself was presumably some mixture of Jomon and Yayoi, which as others have mentioned are the main two ur-cultures in Japan (though there are definitely later waves of arrivals as well)."
Etymology
From ur- + culture.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ur
Inflected Forms
ur-cultures (plural)
urculture (alternative)