culture

English

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/

noun
Definitions
  • The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize 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 of 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.
  • (botany) Cultivation.
  • (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  • The growth thus produced.
  • A group of bacteria.
  • (cartography) The 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.
  • (archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

Etymology

Derived from Middle French culture (culture, cultivation) derived from Latin cultūra (culture, cultivation) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around), *kʷel- (turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*kʷel-

Gloss

turn, move, going around, revolve, far, dwell, and therefore to sojourn, revolve around

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji
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