Definition of Cultural movement

1. Noun. A group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals.

Generic synonyms: Front, Movement, Social Movement
Specialized synonyms: Humanism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cultural Movement

cultriform
cults
cults of personality
culturable
cultural
cultural Marxism
cultural anthropology
cultural attache
cultural characteristics
cultural deprivation
cultural diversity
cultural evolution
cultural evolutionism
cultural imperialism
cultural literacy
cultural movement (current term)
cultural patrimony
cultural shock
cultural studies
cultural wealth
culturally
culturati
culture
culture collections
culture maker
culture makers
culture media
culture medium
culture minister

Literary usage of Cultural movement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Menorah Movement for the Study and Advancement of Jewish Culture and by Intercollegiate Menorah Association (1914)
"The Menorah Movement is first and foremost a cultural movement: the entire ... The Menorah Movement, then, is a cultural movement of great moral import to ..."

2. Women in Public Life by Jane Addams, Earl Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Neva Ruth Deardorff, Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge, 1855-, George Elliott Howard, Emilie Josephine Hutchinson, Florence Kelley, Gertrude S. Martin, Maurice Parmelee, Elsie (1914)
"The club movement was begun nearly fifty years ago as a cultural movement and, as such, was criticized, ridiculed or encouraged according to the state of ..."

3. Democracy and Governance Review: Mandela's Legacy 1994-1999 by Bernard M. Magubane, Yvonne G. Muthien, Meshack M. Khosa (2001)
"Inkatha Freedom Party, a cultural movement with political undertones— much ... This "national cultural movement" declared its aims to be the liberation of ..."

4. The Birth of the Russian Democracy by Arkady Joseph Sack (1918)
"... may be put as follows: "When I am among the intelligent people in the Ukraine, I feel that there is in existence a certain cultural movement. ..."

5. The High School: A Study of Origins and Tendencies by Frank Webster Smith (1916)
"... which culminated in the real-schule movement of the early eighteenth century, which quickly fell away before a revived cultural movement represented ..."

6. A Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question by Theodor Herzl, Sylvie d'. Avigdor, Jacob De Haas (1917)
"... others have planned an international Jewish university; a cultural movement—combated for the time being by the more orthodox—has spread so strongly as ..."

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