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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高雅文化 (gāoyǎ wénhuà)

• Finnish: korkeakulttuuri (fi)
• German: Hochkultur (de) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høykultur m

• Polish: kultura wyższa f

Further reading

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