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      culture
      noun
      The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
      The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
      The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
      (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
      (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
      (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
      (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
      The growth thus produced.
      (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.
      A group of bacteria.
      (archaeology) 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”). [(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.]
      verb
      (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
      (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)
      Roots
      colocult- · Latin · cultivate, worship
      Synonyms for culture
      acculturationncivilizationnenculturationncultivationnmoresnethosn
      Words related to culture
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