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词汇 cultural-capital
释义 cultural capital
noun
uk /ˌkʌl.tʃər.əl ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/ us /ˌkʌl.tʃɚ.əl ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl/

cultural capitalnoun (CITY)


[ C ]
a city that is considered to be important or the most important in a particular area for cultural activities such as music, art, and theatre:
During the Renaissance Florence was revered as the cultural capital of the world.
A prosperous city of 13 million people, Lahore is Pakistan's cultural capital.
Budapest is the political, commercial and cultural capital of Hungary.
Melbourne is regarded as the cultural capital of Australia.
Cologne has been carefully restored to its former glory and is now rightly regarded as one of Germany's cultural capitals.
Staging the event seemed like a step forward in the city's campaign to be recognized as a cultural capital.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general)
aerotropolis
anti-city
anti-urban
backwater
boom town
burgher
Cantabrigian
central city
civic
conurbation
garden city
multi-city
municipal
native place
non-municipal
open city
retirement community
small-town
smoke
urbanite

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cultural capitalnoun (KNOWLEDGE)


[ U ]
cultural knowledge, especially about things such as history, literature, music, and art, that someone needs in order to be considered as an educated person, or the status(= high social position) that comes from having this:
Cultural capital boosts social status, helping someone to talk confidently in different social groups, to access higher education, and to be successful at work.
People may use linguistic forms that are perceived as having prestige in order to gain cultural capital.
Competence in literacy is a kind of cultural capital that students take with them into the workplace.
When a writer wins an award there is more than money at stake, there is cultural capital.
Rather than people having a genetic predisposition to certain skills, he believes the fact that family members gravitate towards the same profession is connected to inherited cultural capital.
Children from poor backgrounds not only lack economic and cultural capital, but they may also find school settings alienating.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Knowledge and awareness
acquaintance
alertness
as every schoolboy/schoolchild knowsidiom
astuteness
at/in the back of your mindidiom
familiarity
firsthand
general knowledge
gnostic
grounding
metacognition
nescience
nescient
nod
off someone's radaridiom
omniscience
street smarts
theory of mind
visual literacy
witting

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