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say it: KUHL-chur
culture is a noun and verb meaning "a particular society at a particular time and place". It is pronounced /ˈkʌltʃɚ/ — KUHL-chur. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a particular society at a particular time and place
“early Mayan civilization”
archeology
the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
all the knowledge and values shared by a society
a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
“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”
the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
“the developing drug culture”
“the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for culture come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.