culture
noun
us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/ uk
/ˈkʌl.tʃər/culture noun (WAY OF LIFE)
B1 [ C or U ]
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time:
culture of The investigation found there was a culture of sexism and racism within the organization.
popular/working-class culture
- American culture has been exported all over the world.
- She got some books out of the library and immersed herself in Jewish history and culture.
- Each culture had a special ritual to initiate boys into manhood.
- Don't you think it is wrong to try to impose western culture on other countries?
- It's a nostalgia trip back into the swinging culture of the 1960s.
- Do you think there is a culture of lying within modern politics?
- anthropogenic
- anthropological
- anthropologically
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- cultural
- culturally
- culturally responsive
- demographer
- demographics
- hermetic
- hermetically
- intercultural
- interculturally
- superorganic
- the global village
- trend
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
- westernization
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culture noun (ART)
B1 [ U ]
- I was suffering from an overdose of culture.
- She's the personification of culture and refinement.
- The advertising industry's use of classic songs is vandalism of popular culture, he said.
- There's not much here in the way of culture.
culture noun (GROWING)
[ C or U ]
biology
specialized
cells, tissues, organs, or organisms grown for scientific purposes, or the activity of breeding and keeping particular living things in order to get the substances they produce