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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Examples of "culture" in Sentences
- Celebrity culture is the culture of the masses.
- The Arabian culture is regnant over other cultures.
- She is not overawed by the Australian society and culture.
- The culture of Jersey is the culture of the Bailiwick of Jersey.
- Respect for human rights and international cultures undergird my focus.
- All are the elements of culture that strengthen the culture of the society.
- The Onion extrapolated the survival of human culture a couple of years ago.
- There are two senses in which the term culture war or cultural war is used.
- Most human cultures tend to be superstitious and very fearful of the unknown.
- (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.