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Culture

noun
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
Word Frequency: 114.9

Definitions

1.nounThe arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
2.nounThe beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
3.nounThe conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.
4.nounAny knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
5.nounCultivation.
6.nounThe process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
7.nounThe growth thus produced.
"I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died."
8.nounA group of bacteria.
9.nounThe 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.nounA recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.
11.verbTo maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
12.verbTo increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

Synonyms

acculturationculturallyculturaltraditioninterculturalcivilizationhumanisticethosphilosophyartscivilizededucation

Rhymes With

horticulturevulturefilcheragriculturesubcultureaquaculturecountercultureblack vulture
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