culture vulture
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹ ˌvʌlt͡ʃəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.17 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] —unless of course "culture" is thought to be something decoratively added when all else has been accomplished, the fairy on the Christmas tree: an approach which opens wide the way for culture-vultures and peddlars of arty gentility, upon whom "culture" sits (to misuse an image of T. S. Eliot's) like a silk hat upon a Bradford millionaire."
- "Around 59th and Lexington, where Dry Dock Savings Bank is located, pickings are lush for the purple-pantsuited culture vulture."
- "Leaving aside for a moment the problem [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe was touching on with his vivid image of a play 'fresh from the pan', we can see that this is a man of the living theatre who was not interested in a culture-vulture audience."
- "[A] failed composer who thinks himself to be [Anton] Webern's successor, and his pretentious wife, a culture vulture."
- "Be a culture vulture by going to the ballet, opera or a classical concert."
- "A through northbound service to Finsbury Park […] was the 'Theatre Express'. It was meant to serve theatre-goers who lived on the main-line stops beyond Finsbury Park – say, Enfield. […] But there weren't enough culture vultures in places like Enfield to justify the service."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *kʷel-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹ ˌvʌlt͡ʃəɹ/
- British English: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə ˌvʌlt͡ʃə/