culture meaning
EN
[ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ] [ˈkʌlt͡ʃə] 
US UK WCulture
- Culture (/ˈkʌltʃər/) is, in the words of E.B. Tylor, "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." (Tylor 1871:1)
- As a defining aspect of what it means to be human, culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies.
- In the humanities, one sense of culture, as an attribute of the individual, has been the degree to which they have cultivated a particular level of sophistication, in the arts, sciences, education, or manners.
FR culture 
- NounPLculturesSUF-culture
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- 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.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- 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.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
- (botany) Cultivation.
- (computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
- A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies.
- (cartography) 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.
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
- VerbSGculturesPRculturingPT, PPcultured
- (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
- (transitive) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
- (transitive) To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Each condition had five blocks of data, which were comprised of controls, nonCF Pa, mucoid Pa and nonmucoid Pa (Pa was either live cells or spent culture filtrates as indicated).
- The Turks had acquired the culture of power of Persia and implemented its political and administrative traditions in the subcontinent.
- We started culturing the cells in the presence of subcytotoxic concentrations of either DR5026 or rifampicin.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Culture plates were reincubated for a further 24 h if there was no growth after overnight incubation or predominant morphotype seen in Gram smear had not yet been isolated.
- Cultured NHLF were loaded with Fura-2 AM (3 μM) and Ca 2+ signals were recorded by microfluorimetric techniques.
- Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Urine studies revealed dipstick proteinuria (100 mg/dL), large dipstick blood, only a few normomorphic erythrocytes, and negative culture.
- The vocabulary of any language is influenced by contacts with other cultures.
- I hope this song can unite people from all different cultures.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of culture in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Collective nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "culture" is a noun, more specifically, a collective noun, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.