superculturen.
/ˈsuːpəˌkʌltʃə/, /ˈsjuːpəˌkʌltʃə/, U.S. /ˈsupərˌkəltʃər/ 1. Intense cultivation of land, crops, or plants. rare.
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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.
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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.
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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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