culture

IPA: kˈʌɫtʃɝ

noun

  • The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
  • The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  • The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
  • (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  • (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
  • (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • The growth thus produced.
  • 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.)

verb

  • (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)
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