culture
The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or…The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
» You can't separate language from culture.
Man kann Sprache und Kultur nicht trennen.
Невозможно отделить язык от культуры.
Meaning
10 senses(countable, uncountable)The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
Kultur
культу́раkulʹtúra
культу́раkulʹtúra
a particular society at a particular time and place
(countable, uncountable)The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
Kultur
культу́раkulʹtúra
(countable, uncountable)The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
all the knowledge and values shared by a society
(countable, uncountable)Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
культу́раkulʹtúra
культу́раkulʹtúra
(countable, uncountable)Cultivation.
http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
(countable, uncountable)The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
культу́раkulʹtúra
культу́раkulʹtúra
(countable, uncountable)The growth thus produced.
I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
(countable, uncountable)A group of bacteria.
культу́раkulʹtúra
культу́раkulʹtúra
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, euphemistic, uncountable)Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.).
Examples
801 sentencesYou can't separate language from culture.
ruНевозможно отделить язык от культуры.
deMan kann Sprache und Kultur nicht trennen.
The students are talking about language and culture.
ruСтуденты говорят о языке и культуре.
deDie Studenten sprechen über Sprache und Kultur.
In our culture, we can't be married to two women at once.
Culture is like jam: the less one has, the more one spreads it.
Культура - як варення: чим його менше, тим більше його розмазують.
ruКультура как мармелад: чем её меньше, тем сильнее её размазывают.
deKultur ist wie Marmelade: je weniger man hat, desto mehr verteilt man sie.
In our culture, you can't be married to two women at the same time.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culFrom 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)”).
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Forms
plural: culturesSynonyms
7 synonyms- a particular society at a particular time and place:civilizationcivilisation
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society:acculturation
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality:polishrefinementcultivationfinish
Word family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable