"culture war" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: culture wars [plural]
Etymology: Calque of German Kulturkampf. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|Kulturkampf}} Calque of German Kulturkampf Head templates: {{en-noun}} culture war (plural culture wars)
  1. (rare) A political struggle for control over cultural institutions. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-culture_war-en-noun-dl~jb4-c
  2. (often in the plural) Conflict between different ideological groups, especially political conflict for cultural dominance between liberals and conservatives in the United States. Tags: in-plural, often Translations (political conflict for cultural dominance): 文化战争 (Chinese Mandarin), kulttuurisota (Finnish), kulttuurisodankäynti (Finnish), guerre culturelle [feminine] (French), კულტურული ომი (ḳulṭuruli omi) (Georgian), Kulturkampf [masculine] (German), kultúrharc (Hungarian), мәдени соғыс (mädeni soğys) (Kazakh), wojna kultur [feminine] (Polish), guerra cultural [feminine] (Spanish), batalla cultural [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-culture_war-en-noun-3KXQPus8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of 'political conflict for cultural dominance': 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: culture warrior

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