culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cultures
form: culcha
Etymology: From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 September 7, “Farming as rocket science”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:
glosses: The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
examples: text: 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; […]
ref: 1882, Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light”, in Culture and Anarchy:
glosses: The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
glosses: The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
examples: http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Cultivation.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
examples: text: I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
glosses: The growth thus produced.
glosses: A group of bacteria.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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”).
glosses: Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
Derived terms: acculture
adult third culture kid
algaculture
anticulture
aquaculture
archaeological culture
astaciculture
aviculture
biculture
bioculture
bro culture
call-out culture
callout culture
cancel culture
canteen culture
cassette culture
Cemetery H culture
coculture
coffee culture
compensation culture
conculture
coproculture
counterculture
counter culture
cringe culture
cryoculture
culturability
culturable
culturagram
culturati
culturcide
culture-bound
culturecide
culture-fair
cultureful
culture god
culture-god
culture-hero
culture hero
culture-historical
culture-jack
culturejack
culture jamming
cultureless
culturelike
culturemaker
culture maker
cultureme
culture medium
culture of death
culturescape
cultureshed
culture vulture
culture war
cultureware
culture warrior
culturewide
culturewise
culturgen
culturicide
culturism
culturist
culturize
culturocide
culturology
culturome
culturomics
cyberculture
dark culture
deculture
dependency culture
drinking culture
ecoculture
electroculture
enculturation
enculture
ethnoculture
fishculture
folk culture
fruticulture
geoculture
haemoculture
haute culture
hemoculture
herpetoculture
high context culture
high-context culture
high culture
histoculture
homoculture
horticulture
hydroculture
hyperculture
iatroculture
idioculture
inculture
interculture
lad culture
Liaoning bronze dagger culture
like-cultured
long-hours culture
low-context culture
low context culture
Lower Xiajiadian culture
macroculture
man of culture
mass culture
metaculture
microculture
micro-culture
miniculture
monoculture
mosaiculture
multiculture
mycoculture
my culture is not your costume
myeloculture
narcoculture
natureculture
neoculture
neuroculture
nonculture
nonmaterial culture
occulture
Okhotsk culture
olericulture
oligoculture
organoculture
ostreiculture
outrage culture
overculture
palace of culture
permaculture
petroculture
physical culture
physiculture
pisciculture
polyculture
pop culture
popular culture
porciculture
preculture
protoculture
pyroculture
rape culture
reculture
reverse culture shock
sand culture
Sang culture
security culture
self-culture
silviculture
subculture
superculture
technoculture
tetraculture
third culture kid
tiki culture
tissue culture
triculture
uberculture
unculture
underculture
Upper Xiajiadian culture
ur-culture
urinoculture
vermiculture
viticulture
vulture culture
xenoculture
zooculture
Related terms: agriculture