Added 4 October 2026
culture
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/ noun
In Latin: cultūra Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about culture at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
verb
- to maintain in an environment suitable for growth
- to increase the artistic or scientific interest
Origin
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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