culture
verb/ˈkʌltʃə(r)/
/ˈkʌltʃər/
(biology, medical)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they culture | /ˈkʌltʃə(r)/ /ˈkʌltʃər/ |
| he / she / it cultures | /ˈkʌltʃəz/ /ˈkʌltʃərz/ |
| past simple cultured | /ˈkʌltʃəd/ /ˈkʌltʃərd/ |
| past participle cultured | /ˈkʌltʃəd/ /ˈkʌltʃərd/ |
| -ing form culturing | /ˈkʌltʃərɪŋ/ /ˈkʌltʃərɪŋ/ |
- culture something to grow a group of cells or bacteria for medical or scientific studyWord OriginMiddle English (denoting a cultivated piece of land): the noun from French culture or directly from Latin cultura ‘growing, cultivation’; the verb from obsolete French culturer or medieval Latin culturare, both based on Latin colere ‘tend, cultivate’ . In late Middle English the sense was ‘cultivation of the soil’ and from this (early 16th cent.), arose ‘cultivation (of the mind, faculties, or manners)’; sense (3) dates from the early 19th cent.
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