07/24/2022
Defining Culture
In my earlier post I showed a very broad concept of Culture.
Here is the definition of Culture
1. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
Like: the arts, the humanities, intellectual achievement and activity, literature, music, painting, philosophy
2. a refined understanding or appreciation of culture.
Like: education, cultivation, enlightenment, discernment, discrimination, good taste, refinement, polish, sophistication, urbanity, erudition, learning, essays, writings,
3. the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
Like: civilization, society, way of life, lifestyle, customs, traditions, heritage, heritage, habits, ways, mores, values
Origin: Latin culturare, both based on Latin colere ‘tend, cultivate’ (see cultivate). In late Middle English the sense was ‘cultivation of the soil’ and from this (early 16th century), arose ‘cultivation (of the mind, faculties, or manners’); culture (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 19th century.
Cultivate
1. prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.
1b. break up (soil) in preparation for sowing or planting.
1c. raise or grow (plants), especially on a large scale for commercial purposes.
1d. grow or maintain (living cells or tissue) in culture.
2. try to acquire or develop (a quality, sentiment, or skill).
Like: try to acquire, pursue, court, try to develop, work hard at, foster, nurture, encourage
2b. try to win the friendship or favor of (someone).
Like: seek the friendship of, seek the favor of, try to win over, woo, court, pay court to, rub up the right way, run after, make advances to, make up to, keep sweet, ingratiate oneself with, curry favor with, associate with, mix with, keep company with, get in someone's good books, butter up, suck up to, brown-nose, shine up to
Opposite: ignore
2c. apply oneself to improving or developing (one's mind or manners).
Like: improve, better, refine, elevate, polish, educate, train, develop, enlighten, enrich, civilize, culture
Origin: Latin cultivat- ‘prepared for crops’, from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’.
I guess I wanted to show how culture has influenced and changed almost everything that is created in any type of civilization.