A wide range of readers are offered a cultural dictionary designed to play a role in the process of highlighting cultural studies as an independent scientific direction, revealing the nature and relationship of cultural phenomena, dynamics, structure and functions of culture, its meaning and significance. The author offers an original approach to the selection of concepts and cultural phenomena described in the articles of the dictionary. The field of cultural phenomena is limitless, and their selection criterion is the author's relevance of this or that concept for the modern bearer of culture.