Culture

Quick meaning: Culture is a noun meaning The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• cultures
• culcha
• culturing
• cultured

Synonyms for culture

Depending on context, synonyms include acculturation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acculturation, culturally, cultural, tradition, intercultural, civilization.

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