culture

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English

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Alternative forms

• culcha (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
• Hyphenation: cul‧ture
• Rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)

Noun

culture (countable and uncountable, plural cultures)

2. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
4. The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
6. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
8. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
10. (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
    • http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm

      The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs

12. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
14. The growth thus produced.

16. A group of bacteria.
18. (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.
19. (archaeology) Short for archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
21. (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)

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Verb

culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)

1. (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
2. (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

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Translations

References

• “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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “culture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /kyl.tyʁ/

Noun

culture f (plural cultures)

1. crop
2. culture (“arts, customs and habits”)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Turkish: kültür

Further reading

• “culture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Noun

culture f (plural culturis)

1. culture

Related terms

• culturâl

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: cul‧tù‧re

Noun

culture f

1. plural of cultura

Latin

Participle

cultūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cultūrus

Middle English

Noun

culture

1. Alternative form of culter

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kulˈtuɾe/ [kul̪ˈt̪u.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -uɾe
• Syllabification: cul‧tu‧re

Verb

culture

1. inflection of culturar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative