high culture

English

Noun

high culture (uncountable)

1. The artistic entertainment and material artifacts associated with a society's aristocracy or most learned members, usually requiring significant education to be appreciated or highly skilled labor to be produced.

Synonyms

• fine arts

Coordinate terms

• folk culture
• popular culture

Translations

high culture

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høykultur m

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Further reading

• high culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “high culture”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.