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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)

1. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
2. 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 system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.
4. (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
5. (botany) Cultivation.
   • http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm

     The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs

6. (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
7. The growth thus produced.

8. A group of bacteria.
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.

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Related terms

• agriculture

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Verb

culture (third-person singular simple present cultures, present participle culturing, simple past and past participle cultured)

1. (transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
2. (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

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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)

1. crop
2. 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)

1. culture

Related terms

• culturâl

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

culture f

1. plural of cultura

Latin

Participle

cult?re

1. vocative masculine singular of cult?rus

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kul?tu?e/, [kul??t?u.?e]

Verb

culture

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of culturar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of culturar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of culturar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of culturar.

English

Etymology

triumphal +? -ism

Noun

triumphalism (plural triumphalisms)

1. The attitude or belief that a particular doctrine, culture, or social system, particularly a religious or political one, is superior and that it will or should triumph over all others.
   • 1994, Michael Howard, "The World According to Henry: From Metternich to Me," Foreign Affairs, May/June 1994:

     But not only did Soviet triumphalism eventually provoke the Reaganite reaction in the United States, but, Kissinger suggests, it produced the overextension of Soviet resources that led directly to economic and ultimately political collapse.

   • 2001, Jon Beckwith, "Triumphalism in Science

     A better understanding of science should lead not to triumphalism but to the kind of humility recently expressed by Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Francois Jacob in Of Flies, Mice and Men: "Science cannot answer all questions. . . . It can, however, give some indications, exclude certain hypotheses. Engaging in the pursuit of science may help us make fewer mistakes.”

   • 2001, "The speedy fall of the Taliban must not obscure the size of the task ahead," The Independent

     One reason why triumphalism about the fall of the Taliban should be eschewed is because the US and its allies have shown insufficient regret and sadness at the deaths of Afghan villagers. This has allowed the propagandists of Islamic nihilism to claim that the US cares about the deaths of civilians in New York but not in Afghanistan.

   • 2004, Steven Bayme, "Orthodox Triumphalism Revisited," The Jewish Week

     Yet in addition to being self-defeating, sectarian triumphalism undermines core Jewish values of common peoplehood and mutual bonds between Jews worldwide.

   • 2004, Dr. Michael A. Weinstein, The Power and Interest News Report

     The abasement rituals at Abu Ghraib were most generally conditioned by the climate of impunity created by triumphalist strategy, ideology and rhetoric, which led, at least, to dismissive negligence and then cover-ups by authorities.

   • 2008, David Souter, concurring opinion, Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. ___, ___ (2008)

     The several answers to the charge of triumphalism might start with a basic fact of Anglo-American constitutional history: that the power, first of the Crown and now of the Executive Branch of the United States, is necessarily limited by habeas corpus jurisdiction to enquire into the legality of executive detention. And one could explain that in this Court’s exercise of responsibility to preserve habeas corpus something much more significant is involved than pulling and hauling between the judicial and political branches.

Related terms

• triumphalist

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See also

• triumphalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia