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culture
English
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Alternative forms
- kulcha
Etymology
From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cult?ra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (“till, cultivate, worship”) (related to col?nus and col?nia), from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?lt???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?lt???/
Noun
culture (countable and uncountable, plural cultures)
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize 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 of the accepted norms and values of a society.
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- (botany) Cultivation.
- http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
- The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- The growth thus produced.
- A group of bacteria.
- (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.
- (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.
Derived terms
Related terms
- agriculture
Translations
Verb
culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)
- (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)
Related terms
Translations
References
- culture at OneLook Dictionary Search
- culture in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "culture" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 87.
- culture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin cult?ra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of col? (“till, cultivate, worship”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kyl.ty?/
Noun
culture f (plural cultures)
- crop
- culture (“arts, customs and habits”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “culture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Noun
culture f (plural culturis)
- culture
Related terms
- culturâl
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ure
Noun
culture f
- plural of cultura
Latin
Participle
cult?re
- vocative masculine singular of cult?rus
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kul?tu?e/, [kul??t?u.?e]
Verb
culture
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of culturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of culturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of culturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of culturar.
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archaic
English
Alternative forms
- archæic (old-fashioned)
- archaeic (rare or old-fashioned)
- archaïc
- archaick (obsolete)
Etymology
From archaism (“ancient or obsolete phrase or expression”) or from French archaïque, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (arkhaïkós, “old-fashioned”), from ??????? (arkhaîos, “from the beginning, antiquated, ancient, old”), from ???? (arkh?, “beginning, origin”), from ???? (árkh?, “I am first”), from ???? (árkh?, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erg?- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /??.?ke?.?k/
Noun
archaic (plural archaics)
- (archaeology, US, usually capitalized) A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American?paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- [...] Archaic Stage [...] the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.
- 1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page #107:
- (paleoanthropology) (A member of) an archaic variety of Homo sapiens.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
- [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.
- 2009, The Human Lineage, page 432:
Adjective
archaic (comparative more archaic, superlative most archaic)
- Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.
- (of words) No longer in ordinary use, though still used occasionally to give a sense of antiquity.
- (archaeology) Belonging to the archaic period
Synonyms
- (old-fashioned): dated, obsolete, old fashioned; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Derived terms
- archaically, archaism, archaicy
Related terms
Translations
References
- archaic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “archaic”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998
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- arachic
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