Definitions for culture

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culture cul·ture

Spelling: [kuhl-cher]

IPA: /ˈkʌl tʃər/

Culture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in culture (celrtuu).

Definitions for culture

noun

1. the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
2. that which is excellent in the arts, manners, etc.
3. a particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period:
4. development or improvement of the mind by education or training.
5. the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group:
6. Anthropology. the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.
7. Biology. the cultivation of microorganisms, as bacteria, or of tissues, for scientific study, medicinal use, etc. the product or growth resulting from such cultivation.
8. the act or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage.
9. the raising of plants or animals, especially with a view to their improvement.
10. the product or growth resulting from such cultivation.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to culture; cultivate.
2. Biology. to grow (microorganisms, tissues, etc.) in or on a controlled or defined medium. to introduce (living material) into a culture medium.

Origin of culture

1400-50; late Middle English: tilling, place tilled (Anglo-French) Latin cultūra. See cult, -ure

Examples for culture

All that has been said, then, tends to enforce the culture of the imagination.

Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.

I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.

I have said of myself that I was one who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.

“Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.

Even in Boston, mellowed though it was by culture, the classical was at a discount.

A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.

Give everyone his culture, and no one will offer him more than his due.

I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.

We have reached a tipping point in the culture where Americans are now trained to look to the rules instead of their own judgment.