Culture
['kʌltʃə] or ['kʌltʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the raising of plants or animals; 'the culture of oysters'.
(noun.) (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); 'the culture of cells in a Petri dish'.
(noun.) the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group.
(noun.) the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization; 'the developing drug culture'; 'the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture'.
(noun.) a particular society at a particular time and place; 'early Mayan civilization'.
(verb.) grow in a special preparation; 'the biologist grows microorganisms' .
Typist: Pierce--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Agriculture, tillage.[2]. Improvement, refinement, cultivation, civilization.
Editor: Maureen
Definition
n. cultivation: the state of being cultivated: refinement the result of cultivation.—v.t. to cultivate: to improve.—adjs. Cul′turable; Cul′tural.—p.adj. Cul′tured cultivated: well educated: refined.—adj. Cul′tureless.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A degree of mental development that produces tailor-made women, fantastically-sheared poodles and dock tailed horses.
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Examples
- But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whatever those might be which descended to me, my noble young friend resolved should not be lost for want of culture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Greeks were conquered by the Romans in 146 B.C,but before tha t time Roman life and institutions had been touched by Hellenic culture. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The beneficent effect of their activities on the health and general welfare of the masses of the people bears witness to the sanity and worth of the culture th at prompted these activities. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Cultures of chicken chol era virus kept for some time became less active. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- India, a galaxy of contrasted races, religions, and cultures, Dravidian, Mongolian, and Aryan, became a nation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Water cultures of buckwheat: 1, with all the food elements; 2, without potash; 3, without nitrates. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She will make you an admirable wife; but, think to yourself, how will this uncultured, simple girl look beside the cultured ladies of England? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She was almost a parvenue in their old cultured milieu. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Vitruvius was a cultured engineer and architect. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Providence has protected and cultured you, not only for your own sakebut I believe for Graham's. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The scientific man and the cultured man belong to two different spheres which, though coming together at times in the same individual, are never fully reconcil ed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- All were of the highly civilized and cultured race of red men who are dominant on Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Editor: Thea