Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CULTURE

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Definitions of CULTURE

1. The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
2. The growth thus produced.
3. A group of bacteria.
4. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
5. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
6. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
7. (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
8. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
9. (cartography) 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.
10. (archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.
11. (euphemism) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
12. (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
13. (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

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Examples of Using CULTURE in a Sentence

• She was also the patron goddess of prostitutes, an association which led early scholars to propose the concept of "sacred prostitution" in Greco-Roman culture, an idea which is now generally seen as erroneous.
• Located in the north-central part of the country, it extends along the shores of the Bay of Algiers in the heart of the Maghreb region making it classified among the biggest cities in North Africa, the Arab world and the Mediterranean Sea, making it a major center of culture, arts, gastronomy and trade.
• Her status as an independent female monarch, and obvious affinity for Roman culture, caused discontent among the Gothic nobles in her court, and she was deposed and killed after six months of sole rule.
• Although Alberta has a presence in many industries such as agriculture, forestry, education, tourism, finance, and manufacturing, the politics and culture of the province have been closely tied to the production of fossil energy since the 1940s.
• Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature".
• Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.
• The Albanians are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language.
• Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
• A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period.
• They began to appear in records by the 6th century AD, and their culture, language and political institutions are the predecessors of those of the medieval Duchy of Bavaria and Margraviate of Austria.
• The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
• They left their megalithic monuments, hut circles and cairns, and the Bronze Age culture that followed left further cairns, and more stone circles and stone rows.
• Canada's long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its history, economy, and culture.
• A small number of card games played with traditional decks have formally standardized rules with international tournaments being held, but most are folk games whose rules may vary by region, culture, location or from circle to circle.
• A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.
• Western canon, the body of high culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that is highly valued in the West.
• Teochew cuisine bears more similarities to that of Fujian cuisine, particularly Southern Min cuisine, due to the similarity of Teochew's and Fujian's culture, language, and their geographic proximity to each other.
• The word "imperialism" describes practices in which a country engages culture (language, tradition, and ritual, politics, economics) to create and maintain unequal social and economic relationships among social groups.
• The traditional "Celtic from the East" theory, says the proto-Celtic language arose in the late Bronze Age Urnfield culture of central Europe, named after grave sites in southern Germany, which flourished from around 1200 BC.
• English serves as the medium of inter-Commonwealth relations and the language forms part of the common culture of the Commonwealth.
• The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic, flat sculptures carved out of the islands' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age Minoan civilization arose in Crete to the south.
• The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilisation in which it appears.
• This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses.
• Critical theory – the examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities.
• The culture of Canada embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, humour, musical, political and social elements that are representative of Canadians.

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