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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
culturally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
determined
▪ But the social forms that the manifestations of the tendency take are very various and both historically conditioned and culturally determined.
▪ It should be noted that although the need itself is culturally universal, the means of its satisfaction is culturally determined.
▪ Often it takes meetings such as this to reveal the pervasive nature of culturally determined behaviour.
▪ Although communicating by touch is the most primitive mode, there are culturally determined touching patterns for adults.
▪ To assert that all normal human behaviour is culturally moulded does not necessarily prove that it is also culturally determined.
▪ There are also differences regarding the amount of gesticulation and mobility of the lips when communicating which are culturally determined.
diverse
▪ Contemporary Britain is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, culturally diverse society.
▪ This is the most culturally diverse country on the planet, and all kinds of people interact.
▪ San Martin, with whom Guevara is compared by some, led his racially and culturally diverse army with much greater sensibility.
specific
▪ All these were signals of a religious kind, framing the performances in culturally specific ways.
▪ It was culture-specific, but not so culturally specific that everyone could not enjoy it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lies that protect someone's feelings are often culturally acceptable.
▪ The district is one of the most highly educated and culturally sophisticated in the South.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons, which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to.
▪ Above all else, colonial governments were brutal and culturally limited.
▪ But its impact on the world has been uneven both culturally and economically.
▪ But these theories' notions of culturally stable femininity often elide with their concept of a biologically stable individual.
▪ In our culturally and ethnically mixed society the degree of emancipation of women was uneven.
▪ Investment banking applicants were expected to be culturally literate.
▪ The above examples of culturally defined behaviour have been selected because they differ considerably from behaviour patterns in Western society.
▪ The reality of living here without the social infrastructure they're culturally used to would probably send a Blairy into trauma.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
culturally

1889, from cultural + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
culturally

adv. In a cultural way.

WordNet
culturally

adv. with regard to a culture; "culturally integrated"

Usage examples of "culturally".

A brilliant, imaginative ameboid criminal at large on a planet as volatile culturally as Earth!

A brilliant, imaginative amoeboid criminal at large on a planet as volatile culturally as Earth!

The link in the minds of this conservative religious group between their pro-family, antiabortion beliefs and a hard-line strategy in the fight against terrorism may not be intellectually apparent, but is entirely culturally coherent.

Orientalism expresses and represents that part culturally and even ideologically as a mode of discourse with supporting institutions, vocabulary, scholarship, imagery, doctrines, even colonial bureaucracies and colonial styles.

The Left will have to abandon its PC illiberalism or continue to lose ground politically and culturally.

Indeed, as the twentieth century approached its end --an event that would almost exactly coincide with my seventieth birthday--I had the impression, as a longtime warrior against the political leftism I embraced in my thirties and the liberationism in which it expressed itself culturally, and as a more recent soldier in the fight against the anti-Americanism of the Right, that some kind of peace was at hand.

But Culturally alien elements, in the last analysis, never penetrate to the feeling behind Western ideas and institutions, any more than Westerners could ever grasp the subtleties of the Kabbalah or the Maimonidean philosophy.

Leonard Nims wrote Environmental Impact Statements, the documents that, in essence, granted or denied commercial interests permission to dig, drill, ditch or otherwise disturb culturally sensitive areas in northern New Mexico.

The sexes have different aptitudes, areas of intelligence, capabilities, endurance, strengths, and so on, and most of it is not culturally induced, but inherited.

Chinese, Japanese, European, and American the Outworlders had been, and culturally they continued for a while as these groups.

Being of Aztecan descent, he had a culturally ingrained understanding of just how nasty a power Huitzilopochtli was.

Being of Aztecan descent, he had a culturally ingrained understanding of just how nasty a power Huitz ilopochtii was.

They were of course culturally and behavioristically worlds apart, but the physical similarities suggested a point of common origin lost to time and history.

Even speaking culturally, you find here all the bigotries, all the procedures associated with oppressor groups.

Just as exchanges of domesticates between ecologically diverse regions enriched Chinese food production, exchanges between culturally diverse regions enriched Chinese culture and technology, and fierce competition between warring chiefdoms drove the formation of ever larger and more centralized states (Chapter 14).