culturist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.05 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who raises or cultures something; a cultivator.
noun
One who holds prejudices against a culture.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Steve Dolan is an assistant manager and fish culturist at the Salmon River Hatchery in Altmar, outside Syracuse, where Lake Ontario’s king salmon are raised."
- "The Culturists, again — by which term I mean not those who esteem culture, (as what intelligent man does not?) but those, its exclusive advocates, who recommend it as the one panacea for all the ills of humanity, — the Culturists are never done insisting that it is not for its utilitarian results, not for the technical skill and information it implies, nor for the professional success it may secure, that they value culture, but for its effect in elevating the whole man."
- "All of these right-wing extremist parties can be described as culturist or new racist, as they all emphasize cultural rather than racial differences between groups."
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 *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English culturist From culture + -ist.
Inflected Forms
culturists (plural)
cult. (alternative, abbreviation)
more culturist (comparative)
most culturist (superlative)