culture
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin cultura < cultus, perfect passive participle of colere (“‘till, cultivate, worship’”) (related to colonus and colonia) < Proto-Indo-European *qwel, + suffix -ura.
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culture (plural cultures)
- The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- The beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
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arts, customs and habits
the beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a people's way of life
microbiology: the process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity
anthropology: any knowledge passed from one generation to the next
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to culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)
- (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
- (transitive) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
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to maintain in an environment suitable for growth
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culture f.
- Plural form of cultura.
