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Etymology

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

culture (plural cultures)

  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. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
  4. (anthropology) 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. (botany) cultivation
    The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs[1]
  7. (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
    A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.

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Verb

culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)

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

Translations

to maintain in an environment suitable for growth
  • Czech: kultivovat (cs)
  • Greek: καλλιεργώ (el) (kalliergó)
  • Macedonian: одгледува (mk) (odgléduva)
  • Telugu: అనుకూల వాతావరణం (te) (anukula vatavaranam)
to increase the artistic or scientific interest
  • Greek: αναπτύσσω (el) (anaptýsso)
  • Hebrew: לתרבת (he) (letarbet)
  • Telugu: శాస్త్రీయ అభివృద్ధి (te) (sastriya abhivruddhi)
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  • Japanese: 培養する (ja) (ばいようする, baiyōsuru)

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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)

  1. crop
  2. culture (“arts, customs and habits”)

Italian

Noun

culture f.

  1. Plural form of cultura.

Spanish

Verb

culture (infinitive culturar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of culturar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of culturar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of culturar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of culturar.

 

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