culture

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
2. (countable, uncountable) The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
3. (countable, uncountable) The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
4. (countable, uncountable) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
5. (countable, uncountable) Cultivation.
6. (countable, uncountable) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
7. (countable, uncountable) The growth thus produced.
8. (countable, uncountable) A group of bacteria.
9. (countable, uncountable) 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.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
11. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)

Verb

1. (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
2. (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

Synonyms

civilization

cultivation

civilisation

society

education

training

custom

refinement

cultivate

drill

tillage

practice

crop

tradition

knowledge

acculturation

farm

learning

finish

manners

decorum

nurture

way of life

grace

polish

🇵🇱

grow

humanity

raising

elegance

self-discipline

propagate

propriety

raise

rearing

remedy

rule

schooling

sow

strain

tame

tending

treatment

upbringing

urbanity

way of living

work

working

writing

good taste

human affairs

Translations

culture

Kultur

cultura

cultura

cultura

cultuur

πολιτισμός

cultura

kültür

κουλτούρα

çande

ثقافة

beschaving

cultivo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/

Etymology

From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

Sentences

Why Study Popular Culture ?

Prepackaged campaigns also borrow from pop culture .