culture
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From Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
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culture (plural cultures)
- The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour 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.
- (botany) cultivation
- The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs[1]
- (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
- A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.
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arts, customs and habits
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the beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a people's way of life
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microbiology: the process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity
anthropology: any knowledge passed from one generation to the next
the collective noun for a group of bacteria
language and peculiarities of a geographical location
cultivation — see cultivation
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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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to increase the artistic or scientific interest
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
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culture f. (plural cultures)
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culture f.
- Plural form of cultura.
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culture (infinitive culturar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of culturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of culturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of culturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of culturar.
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- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- en:Microbiology
- en:Anthropology
- en:Botany
- en:Computing
- English verbs
- English collective nouns
- en:Sociology
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Italian plurals
- Spanish verb forms
- Spanish verb imperative forms
- Spanish verb singular forms
- Spanish verb second-person forms
- Spanish verb formal forms
- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
- Spanish verb subjunctive forms
- Spanish verb first-person forms
- Spanish verb present forms
- Spanish verb third-person forms
