culture
See also: culturé
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- culcha (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology edit
From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
Audio (RP) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: cult‧ure
- Rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Noun edit
culture (countable and uncountable, plural cultures)
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
- Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
- 2013 September 7, “Farming as rocket science”, in The Economist[1], volume 408, number 8852:
- Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- 1882, Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light”, in Culture and Anarchy:
- I condemn neither way; but culture works differently. It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; […]
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
- 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 2, page 164:
- Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
- http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
- The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- The growth thus produced.
- I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
- A group of bacteria.
- (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
- (archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.
- (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
Derived terms edit
Terms derived from culture (noun)
- adult third culture kid
- anticulture
- astaciculture
- aviculture
- biculture
- bro culture
- callout culture
- call-out culture
- cancel culture
- canteen culture
- cassette culture
- Cemetery H culture
- coffee culture
- compensation culture
- counter culture
- cringe culture
- culture-bound
- culture-fair
- culture god
- culture-god
- culture hero
- culture-hero
- culture-jack
- culture jamming
- culture maker
- culture medium
- culture minister
- culture of death
- culture vulture
- culture war
- culture warrior
- cyberculture
- dark culture
- dependency culture
- drinking culture
- folk culture
- fruticulture
- haute culture
- high-context culture
- high context culture
- high culture
- horticulture
- idioculture
- lad culture
- low context culture
- low-context culture
- macroculture
- mass culture
- microculture
- micro-culture
- monoculture
- multiculture
- nonmaterial culture
- olericulture
- outrage culture
- overculture
- palace of culture
- permaculture
- physical culture
- pisciculture
- polyculture
- pop culture
- popular culture
- porciculture
- rape culture
- reverse culture shock
- Sang culture
- security culture
- self-culture
- subculture
- third culture kid
- tiki culture
- tissue culture
- uberculture
- underculture
- ur-culture
- viticulture
- vulture culture
Related terms edit
Translations edit
arts, customs and habits
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the beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a people's way of life
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anthropology: any knowledge passed from one generation to the next
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botany: cultivation — see cultivation
microbiology: the process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity
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the collective noun for a group of bacteria
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Verb edit
culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)
- (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
- (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to maintain in an environment suitable for growth
to increase the artistic or scientific interest
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References edit
- “culture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- culture in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "culture" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 87.
- “culture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culture f (plural cultures)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: kültür
Further reading edit
- “culture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian edit
Noun edit
culture f (plural culturis)
Related terms edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
culture f
Latin edit
Participle edit
cultūre
Middle English edit
Noun edit
culture
- Alternative form of culter
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
culture
- inflection of culturar: