culture

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 114.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
2. noun The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
3. noun The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
4. noun Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
5. noun Cultivation.
6. noun The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
7. noun The growth thus produced.

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

8. noun A group of bacteria.

Similar words

acculturation culturally cultural tradition intercultural civilization humanistic ethos philosophy arts

Often followed by

and of in is that as to was has

Word family

cultural culturally culture of success cultured cultures culturing