Meaning

2 senses
  1. (rare)A political struggle for control over cultural institutions.

  2. (in the plural, often)Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States.

    Kulturkampf

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The "culture war" is a purely right-wing phenomenon.

  2. The culture war is staged by billionaires to prevent class war.

  3. They've lost the ability to think of anything outside of their all-consuming culture war.

  4. No one ever wins or loses the culture war. It just continues on.

    ruВ культурной войне не бывает победителя и проигравшего. Она продолжается вечно. — Ooneykcall

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
political conflict for cultural dominance:

Origin

Calque of German Kulturkampf.

Calque of German Kulturkampf.

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Forms

plural: culture wars
Singularculture war
Pluralculture wars

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
culture war — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto