Meaning of culture | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
   countable, uncountable
2. knowledge
3. To grow microorganisms or a batch of cells in a culture.
4. The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
   countable, uncountable
5. erudition
6. To prepare (soil) for the planting and raising of crops:cultivate, dress, tend, till, work.
7. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
   countable, uncountable
8. cultivation (of plants)
9. kultureel ثَـقافي، حَضاري културен cultural kulturní Kultur... kulturel πολιτιστικός, μορφωτικόςcultural kultuur(i)- فرهنگی kulttuuri- culturelתרבותי सांस्कृतिक kulturan kulturális budaya menningarlegur, menningar- culturale 文化の 문화의 kultūrinis, kultūros kulturāls; kultūras- secara kultur cultureelkulturell, dannet, kultur-kulturowy, kulturalny فرهنګی cultural cultural культурный kultúrny kulturen kulturni kulturell, bildnings-, kultur- ทางวัฒนธรรม kültürel 文化的 культурний; освідчений تهذيبى، ث...
10. Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
    countable, uncountable
11. politeness, respect
12. (negative uncultured) well-educated. geletterd, ongeletterd مُثَقَّف، مُتَحَضّر، راقِ образован culto kultivovaný gebildet kultiveret; dannet καλλιεργημένοςculto haritud فرهیخته sivistynyt cultivé מְתוּרבָּת सुसंस्कृत odgojen művelt terpelajar menntaður, (sið)fágaður colto 教養のある 세련된, 교양있는 kultūringas, išsilavinęs kulturāls; izglītots terpelajar ontwikkeld kultivert, velutdannet; kondisjonertwykształcony با فرهنګ culto cultivat, educat образованный kultivovaný omikan kulturan kultiverad, bilda...
    negative
13. Cultivation.
    countable, uncountable
14. cultivo, crecimiento artificial de microorganismos o células de tejido vivo en el laboratorio;blood ___ → ___ de sangre; ___;
15. The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
    countable, uncountable
16. The arts, beliefs, customs, institutions, and other products of human work and thought considered as a unit, especially with regard to a particular time or social group: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture.
17. The growth thus produced.
    countable, uncountable
18. Mental refinement and sophisticated taste resulting from the appreciation of the arts and sciences: a woman of great culture.
19. A group of bacteria.
    countable, uncountable
20. Special training and development: voice culture for singers and actors.
21. 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.
    countable, uncountable
22. The cultivation of soil; tillage: the culture of the soil.
23. Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
24. The breeding or cultivation of animals or plants for food, the improvement of stock, or other purposes.
25. Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
    countable, euphemistic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.”

“Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.”

“I condemn neither way; but culture works differently. It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; […]”

“Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.”

“http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs”

“I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.”

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