Dictionary entry details
• CULTURE (noun)
Meaning:
A particular society at a particular time and place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
culture; civilisation; civilization
Context example:
early Mayan civilization
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)
Meronyms (parts of "culture"):
subculture (a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs)
Domain category:
archaeology; archeology (the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture"):
Aegean civilisation; Aegean civilization; Aegean culture (the prehistoric civilization on the islands in the Aegean sea and the surrounding countries)
Helladic civilisation; Helladic civilization; Helladic culture (the bronze-age culture of mainland Greece that flourished 2500-1100 BC)
Indus civilization (the bronze-age culture of the Indus valley that flourished from about 2600-1750 BC)
Minoan civilisation; Minoan civilization; Minoan culture (the bronze-age culture of Crete that flourished 3000-1100 BC)
Mycenaean civilisation; Mycenaean civilization; Mycenaean culture (the late bronze-age culture of Mycenae that flourished 1400-1100 BC)
Paleo-American culture; Paleo-Amerind culture; Paleo-Indian culture (the prehistoric culture of the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America)
Western civilization; Western culture (the modern culture of western Europe and North America)
Meaning:
The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture"):
letters (the literary culture)
mass culture (the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media)
counterculture (a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture)
Meaning:
All the knowledge and values shared by a society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
acculturation; culture
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture"):
meme (a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation))
Meaning:
(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the culture of cells in a Petri dish
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture"):
starter (a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough)
Meaning:
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
refinement; polish; cultivation; culture; finish
Context examples:
they performed with great polish / I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose / almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
flawlessness; ne plus ultra; perfection (the state of being without a flaw or defect)
Meaning:
The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Context examples:
the developing drug culture / the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture"):
mosaic culture (a highly diverse culture)
Kalashnikov culture (the attitudes and behavior in a social group that resolves political disputes by force of arms)
cyberculture (the culture that emerges from the use of computers for communication and entertainment and business)
Meaning:
The raising of plants or animals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the culture of oysters
Hypernyms ("culture" is a kind of...):
cultivation ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture"):
cranberry culture (the cultivation of cranberries)
monoculture (the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country))
tillage (the cultivation of soil for raising crops)
viniculture; viticulture (the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing)
