culture /kulˈchər/

1. Cultivation
2. The result of cultivation
3. The state of being cultivated
4. Refinement in manners, thought, taste, etc
5. Loosely, the arts
6. A type of civilization
7. The attitudes and values which inform a society
8. A crop of micro-organisms, eg bacteria, grown in a solid or liquid medium in a laboratory

1. To cultivate
2. To grow (living organisms or cells) in a culture medium

culˈturable adjective

culˈtural adjective

culˈturally adverb

culˈtured adjective

1. Cultivated
2. Well-educated, esp in the arts and humanities
3. Refined

culˈtureless adjective

culˈturist noun

1. A devotee of culture
2. A person who grows cultures in a laboratory

cultural anthropology noun

Social anthropology

cultural cringe noun (esp Aust)

A subservient attitude (usu of a nation) to what are regarded as the superior cultures of others

cultural lag or culture lag noun

A slower rate of cultural change in one part of a society compared with the whole, or in one society compared with others

cultural or culture shock noun

Disorientation caused by a change from one environment, culture, ideology, etc to another that is radically different or alien

cultured pearl noun

A pearl grown round a small foreign body deliberately introduced into an oyster's shell

culture medium noun

A nutritive substance on which laboratory cultures can be grown, eg gelatin, agar, etc

culture vulture noun (informal)

Someone who has an avid interest in the arts

• self-betrayals
• self-binder
• self-binders
• self-blinded
• self-born
• self-bounty
• self-breath
• self-build
• self-built
• self-capacitance
• self-catering
• self-centred
• self-centredly
• self-centredness
• self-certificate
• self-certification
• self-charities
• self-charity
• self-cleaning
• self-closing
• self-cocker
• self-cockers
• self-cocking
• self-collected
• self-colour