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culture

noun
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/UK/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, to grow, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

  1. derived from *kʷel-✻ — “to move; to turn (around)”
  2. derived from cultūra — “cultivation; culture”
  3. derived from culture — “cultivation; culture”

Definitions

  1. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a…

    The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

    • Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.

  2. The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of…

    The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

  3. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community

    The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.

    • Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to…

      Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

    2. Cultivation.

      • http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs

    3. The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

    4. The growth thus produced.

      • I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

    5. A group of bacteria.

    6. The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such…

      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.

    7. Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific…

      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”).

    8. Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)

    9. to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare…

      to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)

    10. to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at culture. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at culture. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at culture

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA