Culto in english
pronunciation: wɜrʃəp part of speech: noun, verb
culto1 = literate ; cultivated ; educated ; well educated [well-educated] ; highbrow [high-brow] ; highbrow [high-brow] ; cultured ; refined.
Example: Unsupported by any other teaching methods, browsing is not, of course enough to make children into literate readers.Example: So the narrator's style has to be articulate, cultivated, correct, steady.Example: This impressive work, which serves educated adults and serious students, intends to be a comprehensive, authoritative compendium of the world's most important knowledge and information.Example: This class is conservative in politics, aristocratic in social affairs, and characteristically well-bred, well-educated, well-housed, and well-heeled.Example: The lowly chow of the rural poor has gone highbrow.Example: People with a grade-school education, most of whose reading choices are in the low-brow category, cannot and do not easily read material written for the high-brow or even the increasingly college-trained middle-brow.Example: She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.Example: At that time, the Europeans were quite definitely the barbarians, whereas the Arabs were considered refined and civilised.more:
» en el habla culta = in educated speech .
Example: In one case, when the spelling is 'o', two equally acceptable short vowel pronunciations are heard in educated speech.» en el lenguaje culto = in educated speech .
Example: In one case, when the spelling is 'o', two equally acceptable short vowel pronunciations are heard in educated speech.» lenguaje culto = formal language .
Example: In academic writing we use formal language, avoiding the use of slang and colloquial language.» menos cultos, los = less literate, the .
Example: Hence, there is a need for organizations who can interpret the fine points of officialese and present them in a form the less literate can understand.» palabra culta = formal word ; learned word .
Example: Many formal words in English contain three or more than three syllables. Example: Oenologist is the learned word for a wine expert.» poco culto = unenlightened .
Example: It beggars belief that the liberals view the golly as a racist artefact of unenlightened times.» vocabulario culto = learned vocabulary ; formal vocabulary .
Example: No single individual ever controls more than a fraction of the learned vocabulary. Example: Academic writing tends to use more formal vocabulary and avoids colloquialisms and slang = La redacción académica tiende a utilizar un vocabulario más formal y evita los coloquialismos y el argot.culto2 = cult.
Example: The cult of information forms the catalyst for a discussion of the ways in which information has acquired folkloristic status as the major way in which people look at the world.more:
» casa de culto = house of worship ; house of prayer ; cult building .
Example: A few of these mosques, in comparison to traditional houses of worship, seem almost futuristic; some even do away with the traditional minaret. Example: This is a house of prayer for those who wish to make space and time in their lives to nurture their souls. Example: Pylons were often decorated with scenes emphasizing a king's authority since it was the public face of a cult building.» culto a la carga = cargo cult [Adoración de los productos llevados por el hombre blanco a algunas zonas del pacífico ] .
Example: Sociologists specializing in Melanesian religions say all the cargo cults are based on a mixture of native and Christian beliefs and rituals.» culto a la domesticidad, el = cult of domesticity, the .
Example: Prior to and during the Cult of Domesticity, women were politically inferior to men and did not share equal rights as citizens.» culto a la inutilidad = cargo cult [Adoración de los productos llevados por el hombre blanco a algunas zonas del pacífico ] .
Example: Sociologists specializing in Melanesian religions say all the cargo cults are based on a mixture of native and Christian beliefs and rituals.» culto a la personalidad = personality cult .
Example: In fact, it failed because it was a personality-cult magazine.» culto a la vida = cult of life .
Example: The more you learn of their civilization, however, the more you come to know that what the ancient Egyptians truly developed was a cult of life.» culto al cargamento = cargo cult [Adoración de los productos llevados por el hombre blanco a algunas zonas del pacífico ] .
Example: Sociologists specializing in Melanesian religions say all the cargo cults are based on a mixture of native and Christian beliefs and rituals.» culto al cargo = cargo cult [Adoración de los productos llevados por el hombre blanco a algunas zonas del pacífico ] .
Example: Sociologists specializing in Melanesian religions say all the cargo cults are based on a mixture of native and Christian beliefs and rituals.» culto al cuerpo = cult of the body ; body beautiful .
Example: He sees the cult of the body as an indication that America is no longer puritanical, if it ever was. Example: Individuals in the West, now more than ever, are in pursuit of the 'body beautiful'.» culto al dinero = cult of money .
Example: Justification for such selfishness is to be found in the cult of money, not in the Gospels.» culto religioso = worship .
Example: At the heart of the ancient Hippopotamian culture is the worship of the feminine principle.» edificio de culto = cult building .
Example: Pylons were often decorated with scenes emphasizing a king's authority since it was the public face of a cult building.» figura de culto = cult figure ; cult hero .
Example: In his early years he consciously emulated both the painterly style and persona of the much-admired artist Drouais, who became something of a cult figure in early 19th c. Paris. Example: His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.» libertad de culto = religious freedom .
Example: Religious freedom is in danger of being upended.» lugar de culto = place of worship .
Example: Every major religion documented has a central place of worship.» objeto de culto = cult object .
Example: The author examines the history of the image, understood as personal simulacrum and cult object.» película de culto = cult movie .
Example: Many of his films had all the ingredients of cult movies: intensely personal tones; a multitude of brilliant, sometimes outlandish touches; fetishistic observations; and challenges to the censors and taboos of the day.» rendir culto = worship .
Example: The article concludes that librarians should not worship communication but they should practice it.