Culture Meaning

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/
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nounThe arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.

nounThe beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

In culture, they are on the same plane as savages.
In a foreign country most of us go through culture shock.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company's ____ promotes teamwork and open communication among employees.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In ____, they are on the same plane as savages.

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)”).

"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." — 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
"Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives." — 2013 September 7, “Farming as rocket science”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:
"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; […]" — 1882, Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light”, in Culture and Anarchy:
"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." — 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 164:

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The company's ____ promotes teamwork and open communication among employees.
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In ____, they are on the same plane as savages.

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