culture

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.4.2 Related terms 1.4.3 See also 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Spanish 4.1 Verb

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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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• IPA: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
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culture (plural cultures)

1. The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
2. The beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
3. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
4. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
5. The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
6. (botany) cultivation

   The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs^[1]

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• subculture
• cyberculture
• monoculture
• multiculture

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• agriculture

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to culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)

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

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cult cultivate culture shock cultural

cultural criticism culturally cultured horticulture

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• colonus
• colonia
• column
• cycle
• wheel

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culture f. (plural cultures)

1. crop
2. culture (“arts, customs and habits”)

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culture f.

1. Plural form of cultura.

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culture (infinitive: culturar)

1. formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of culturar.
2. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of culturar.
3. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of culturar.
4. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of culturar.