Culture

Noun

 * 1) The arts, customs, 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 process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
 * 4)  Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
 * 5) The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
 * 6)  cultivation
 * The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs

Verb

 * 1)  To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
 * 2)  To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).

Adjectives for Culture
snob; diligent; literary; rational; spiritual; high; musical;  splendid;  unprecarious; profound; virile; brilliant; superior; natural; substantial; polite; simple; harmonious; pronounced; untrammeled; mellow; older; mature; age-old; traditional; borrowed; inherited; acquired; vulgar; inferior; dangerous; national; warmed; raw; wide; universal; abundant; vast; considerable; intellectual; indigenous; cruel; pagan; autonomous; alien; civil; rounded; religious; exhilarating; prescriptorial; petty; nascent; curious; active.

Verbs for Culture
absorb—; acquire—; assimilate—; attain—; borrow—; disparage—; fetter—; flout—; imbibe—; lack—; perpetuate—; propagate—; relegate—; retard—; shed—; spread—; stifle—; —broadens; —enhances; —enlightens; —improves; —polishes; —raises; —refines.

Adverbs for Culture
laboriously; diligently; naturally; abundantly; indigenously; spiritually.

Synonyms for Culture
education, learning, experience, knowledge, development, civilization, manners, refinement, scholarship, cultivation, propagation, breeding.

Antonyms for Culture
ignorance, stupidity, boorishness, wildness, pretension, illiteracy, vulgarity.

Derived terms

 * anticulture
 * subculture
 * cyberculture
 * monoculture
 * multiculture
 * olericulture
 * alliumculture
 * cucurbitculture
 * legumeculture
 * coleculture
 * solanaculture

Related terms

 * agriculture

Thesaurus
Acheulean, Aurignacian, Azilian, Chellean, Eolithic, Neolithic, Paleolithic, Pre-Chellean, Solutrean, acculturation, acquired taste, agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, appreciation of excellence, background, backset, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, breed, breeding, cation, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, classical scholarship, classicism, community, complex, contour farming, contour plowing, cultivate, cultivated taste, cultivating, cultivation, cultural drift, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, customs, cut, daintiness, delicacy, delve, dig, dirt farming, discernment, discrimination, donnishness, dress, dressing, dry farming, dryland farming, education, elegance, enculturation, enlightenment, eruditeness, erudition, ethnic group, ethos, excellence, fallow, fallowing, farm, farm economy, farming, fastidiousness, fatten, feed, fertilize, finesse, folkways, force, fruit farming, furrowing, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, geoponics, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grain farming, grow, harrow, harrowing, hatch, hoe, hoeing, humanism, humanistic scholarship, husbandry, hydroponics, intellectualism, intellectuality, intensive farming, keep, key trait, ladylikeness, learnedness, learning, letters, list, listing, literacy, mixed farming, mores, mulch, nation, nationality, niceness, nicety, nurture, pedantism, pedantry, people, plow, plowing, polish, prune, pruning, quality, race, raise, rake, ranch, reading, rear, refinement, run, rural economy, savoir faire, savoir-faire, scholarship, sharecropping, socialization, society, sophist, sophistication, spade, speech community, stock, strain, strip farming, suavity, subsistence farming, subtlety, tank farming, taste, tastefulness, thin, thin out, thinning, thremmatology, till, till the soil, tillage, tilling, tilth, trait, trait-complex, truck farming, urbanity, way of life, weed, weed out, weeding, work, working

Etymology
From cultura:, from cultus:, perfect passive participle of colo: (related to colonus: and colonia:), from earlier *undefined:, from.

Noun

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 * Taiwanese: 文化 (bûn-hoà)
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 * Greek: πολιτισμός
 * Hebrew: תרבות
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 * Indonesian: budaya


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 * Scottish Gaelic:, cultar
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 * Tagalog: kultura
 * Tatar: mädäniät
 * Telugu: సంస్కృతి (saMskRti)
 * Vietnamese: văn hóa, 文化
 * Welsh: diwylliant
 * West Frisian: kultuer


 * Albanian: kulturë
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 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: תרבות
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 * Scottish Gaelic: cultar
 * Tagalog: kultura, pamumuhay
 * Telugu: సంస్కృతి (saMskRti), సంప్రదాయము


 * Bulgarian:
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 * Greek: καλλιέργεια


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 * Croatian:
 * Greek: παράδοση
 * Hebrew: תרבות


 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cultar
 * Telugu: వంశానుగతం


 * Croatian:
 * Greek: καλλιέργεια
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 * Portuguese:
 * Telugu: సూక్ష్మ జీవులు

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Greek: καλλιεργώ


 * Macedonian: одгледува
 * Telugu: అనుకూల వాతావరణం


 * Greek: αναπτύσσω
 * Hebrew: לתרבת


 * Telugu: శాస్త్రీయ అభివృద్ధి


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Related terms

 * cult
 * cultivate
 * culture shock
 * cultural


 * cultural criticism
 * culturally
 * cultured
 * horticulture

Etymology
From cultura:, from cultus:, perfect passive participle of colo:, from earlier *undefined:, from.

Noun

 * 1) crop

Noun
culture