| 单词 | superculture | 
| 释义 | superculturen. 1.  Intense cultivation of land, crops, or plants. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > 			[noun]		 > systems of cultivation round tilth1723 infield and outfield1733 terrace1796 superculture1835 terrace-cultivation1860 terrace-culture1863 conservation tillage1897 monoculture1901 strip farming1913 polyculture1915 sailab1916 shifting cultivation1922 strip-cultivation1932 shifting agriculture1934 strip-cropping1936 podu1938 contour terracing1939 strip system1954 swiddening1971 monocropping1974 1835    Farmer's Mag. Sept. 171/2  				It [sc. the hop] is an uncertain crop... The middle of the grounds will have..a half average crop, and this, in many instances, arises from the super-culture of the planters. 1916    Gardeners' Chron. 59 47/3  				The method which I practise I am tempted to term the super-culture of East Lothian Stocks, as it has invariably yielded first-class results.  2.  Great or excessive intellectual or artistic refinement; high culture; (also) a milieu characterized by this. Now rare. ΚΠ 1886    Cottage Hearth 		(Boston)	 Jan. 30/2  				We Boston people have Baked Beans and Super-Culture..often laid to our charge, by our New York neighbors. 1898    Athenæum 19 Mar. 371/2  				Modern super-culture, with its indisputable tendency to weaken character by sapping energy, over-developing the imagination, multiplying..theories which lead nowhere. 1917    Dial 62 7  				Whether their [sc. the post-impressionists'] work was successful or not, it was right in its aim, in that it combated the stifling realism and super-culture of the nineteenth century. 1975    Encounter June 18/2  				She moved from the super-culture of artists and poets and witty millionaires to the sub-culture of shabby, fanatical, blue-jeaned conspirators.  3.  Originally Cultural Anthropology and Sociology. A set of cultural attitudes, beliefs, customs, etc., holding a dominant or very influential position in the world or in a large geographical area, and often regarded as overwhelming the culture of less powerful areas or groups. Cf. subculture n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > 			[noun]		 > other types of civilizations or cultures > condition or position of tribeship1862 superculture1914 1914    Man 14 195  				A matrilineal system of inheritance was a feature of the sub-culture of the south, on which the Brahmanic super-culture was imposed. 1927    V. W. Brooks Emerson & Others 129  				It was a ‘trans-national’ America of which he caught glimpses now, a battle-ground of all the cultures, a superculture, that might..determine the future of civilization itself. 1966    K. E. Boulding in  Designing Educ. for Future No. 1 		(1967)	 xii. 209  				The network of electronic communication is inevitably producing a world superculture, and the relations between this superculture and the more traditional..cultures of the past remains the great question mark. 1990    Chicago Tribune 29 July  iv. 3/4  				Influential academic figures..[argued] that the U.S. and USSR were jointly moving towards a post-industrial ‘Technotronic superculture’, outstripping Europe and Japan. 2007    F. Skårderud  & M. Nasser in  M. Nasser et al.  Female Body in Mind  i. ii. 21  				Aesthetic surgery pushes individuals towards a standard ideal... The aim..is to achieve an identity based on sameness, to allow integration and acceptance within the larger superculture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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