culture
noun
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
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/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
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- 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.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
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culture
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culture
verb
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
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/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
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- (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
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cultiver
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cultured
adjective
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- Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
- Artificially developed.
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cultivé
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