culture

IPA: kˈʌɫtʃɝ

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.)

(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)

Examples of "culture" in Sentences

There are two senses in which the term culture war or cultural war is used.
(c) The people of the culture farther west, the _north-west culture_, were not Mongols.
So, to properly evangelize in culture today, we've got to know what the culture is saying.
The general tendency in American culture is away from objectivity and neutral rules and toward Who?
The Future of White Boy clubs at FactoryCity the issue of diversity in culture is intractable and unsolvable.
Fully restoring New Orleans to its formerly unique and permanent place in American culture is this nation's greatest domestic challenge.
But trying to come up with a definition made me realize just how vast and encompassing the term "culture" actually was and how many things together make up the culture of a group or civilization.
Here, too, the line of the extant culture, -- the narrow indented boundary of the _culture_ that professed to take all is always defining the new, -- cutting out the wild not yet visited by the art of man; -- only here the criticism is much more lively, because here 'we come _to particulars_,' a thing which the new philosophy -- much insists on; and though this want in learning, and the wildness it leaves, is that which makes tragedies in this method of exhibition; it has its comical aspect also; and this is the laughing and weeping philosopher in one who manages these representations; and in this case it is the comical aspect of the subject that is seized on.