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culture(3)(dictionary)
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Culture(money)
Culture(medicine)
pop culture(dictionary)
Dong Son culture(encyclopedia)

culture(2) (iou)



culture noun. ME.
[French, or its source Latin cultura, from cult-: see CULTIVATE, -URE.]
I. A cultivated field or piece of land. ME-M18.
The action or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage. LME.
The action or practice of cultivating a crop or raising certain animals (as fish, oysters, bees); the production of silk. E17.
F. Fitzgerald Their method of rice culture was far superior to any other in SE Asia.
b. The action or process of causing bacteria, tissue, etc., to grow in prepared media; a growth of cells or spores so obtained. L19.
pure culture: see PURE adjective.
F. Smyth He worked in a cancer research centre, managed to smuggle out a cancer culture.
II.
The cultivation or development of the mind, manners, etc.; improvement by education and training. E16.
physical culture: see PHYSICAL adjective.
R. W. Dale The Jewish system was intended for the culture of the religious life.
Refinement of mind, tastes, and manners; artistic and intellectual development; the artistic and intellectual side of civilization. E19.
M. Arnold The great men of culture. E. Shinwell Of what use is culture to a labourer?
A particular form, stage, or type of intellectual development or civilization in a society; a society or group characterized by its distinctive customs, achievements, products, outlook, etc. M19.
the two cultures literature and science, as disciplines that tend to be mutually incompatible or hostile.
P. Davies The common interest in astronomy among such diverse cultures as the Sumerians and the N. American Indians. D. Attenborough This..results in a community having shared skills and knowledge, shared ways of doing thingsin short, a culture.
The distinctive customs, achievements, products, outlook, etc., of a society or group; the way of life of a society or group. L19.
material culture the physical objects which give evidence of the type of culture developed by a society or group. pop culture: see POP adjective.
A. S. Byatt Working-class culture.
Comb.: culture-bound adjective restricted in character, outlook, etc., by belonging to a particular culture; culture pearl a cultured pearl; culture shock: experienced by a person who finds himself or herself in a notably unfamiliar or uncongenial cultural environment; culture vulture joc. a person who devotes much time and effort to acquiring culture; culture war a conflict between groups with different ideals, beliefs, philosophies, etc.
culturist noun (a) a person engaged in the culture of crops etc. (physical culturist: see PHYSICAL adjective); (b) an advocate of culture: E19.
cultureless adjective uncultivated (lit. & fig.); lacking culture: E19.