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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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Noun
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Singular culture |
Plural cultures |
culture (plural cultures)
- The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- The beliefs, values, behavior 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]
Derived terms
- subculture
- cyberculture
- monoculture
- multiculture
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Verb
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Infinitive to culture |
Third person singular cultures |
Simple past cultured |
Past participle cultured |
Present participle culturing |
to 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).
Translations
to maintain in an environment suitable for growth
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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)’”).
Pronunciation
Noun
culture f. (plural cultures)
Italian
Noun
culture f.
- Plural form of cultura.
Spanish
Verb
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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