Culture

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/ · noun

Meaning

The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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; […]

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.

http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs

I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

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• cultures
• culcha
• culturing
• cultured

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