culture

Definition

  • noun: the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time
  • noun: the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education
  • verb: to grow (something) in controlled conditions
  • verb: to grow in a prepared medium
  • synonyms: cultivate, acheulean, aurignacian

Examples

  • There was a 'culture of success' at the school. [=the school's policies and environment encouraged its students' success]

  • Foreign students often experience 'culture shock' when they first come to the U.S.

  • Scientists have been refining techniques for the 'culture' of living tissue.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) you would be the best explorer in the world. Continue, Gretel. GRETEL: "The aim of the Jew is to become the ruler of humanity. "He is the enemy of culture. "Thousands of Germans have been made poor by the Jew." (WHIRRING) Master Bruno. What are you doing? You've just (..)
    2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas