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a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts<because of its wide reputation as a place of culture, Boston became known as “the Athens of America”>Synonymscivilization, cultivation, polish, refinementRelated Wordseducation, erudition, learning, literacy, scholarship; sophistication, urbanity; breeding, gentility, manners; class, elegance, grace, taste; civility, courtesy, politenessNear Antonymsignorance, illiteracy; parochialism, provincialism, unsophistication; boorishness, churlishness, clownishness, coarseness, crudeness, vulgarityAntonymsphilistinism
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the way people live at a particular time and place<a study of ancient Anasazi culture as it existed in the canyons of the American Southwest>— see civilization 1
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