culture

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/    /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation. countable,uncountable
    — Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
  2. The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life. countable,uncountable
    — I condemn neither way; but culture works differently. It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; […]
  3. The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society. countable,uncountable
    — Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.
  4. Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings. countable,uncountable
  5. Cultivation. countable,uncountable
    — http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
  6. The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium. countable,uncountable
  7. The growth thus produced. countable,uncountable
    — I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
  8. A group of bacteria. countable,uncountable
  9. 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,uncountable
  10. Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”). abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
  11. Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.) countable,euphemistic,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. to maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate) transitive
  2. to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate) transitive

词形变化

cultures plural culcha alternative,pronunciation-spelling cultures present,singular,third-person culturing participle,present cultured participle,past cultured past culcha alternative,pronunciation-spelling

词汇关系

衍生词
acculture adult third culture kid algaculture anticulture aquaculture archaeological culture astaciculture aviculture biculture bioculture bro culture callout culture call-out culture cancel culture canteen culture cassette culture Cemetery H culture coculture coffee culture compensation culture conculture coproculture counter culture counterculture cringe culture cryoculture culturability culturable culturagram culturati culturcide culture-bound culturecide culture-fair cultureful culture god culture-god culture hero culture-hero culture-historical culture-jack culturejack culture jamming cultureless culturelike culture maker culturemaker cultureme culture medium culture of death culturescape cultureshed culture victory culture vulture culture war cultureware culture warrior culturewide culturewise culturgen culturicide culturism culturist culturize culturocide culturology culturome culturomics cyberculture dark culture deculture dependency culture diet culture drinking culture ecoculture electroculture enculturation enculture ethnoculture fishculture folk culture fruticulture geoculture haemoculture haute culture hemoculture herpetoculture high context culture high-context culture high culture histoculture homoculture horticulture hydroculture hyperculture iatroculture idioculture inculture interculture K-culture lad culture Liaoning bronze dagger culture like-cultured long-hours culture low-context culture low context culture Lower Xiajiadian culture macroculture man of culture mass culture metaculture microculture micro-culture miniculture monoculture mosaiculture multiculture mycoculture my culture is not your costume myeloculture narcoculture natureculture neoculture neuroculture nonculture nonmaterial culture occulture Okhotsk culture olericulture oligoculture organoculture ostreiculture outrage culture overculture palace of culture permaculture petroculture physical culture physiculture pisciculture polyculture pop culture popular culture porciculture preculture protoculture pyroculture rape culture reculture reverse culture shock sand culture Sang culture security culture self-culture silviculture subculture superculture technoculture tetraculture third culture kid tiki culture tissue culture triculture uberculture unculture underculture Upper Xiajiadian culture ur-culture urinoculture vermiculture viticulture vulture culture xenoculture zooculture

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
From 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)”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
From 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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