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culture

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
  2. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
  3. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.
  4. Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
  5. Cultivation.
  6. The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  7. To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
  8. To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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