cultuur

Etymology

From Middle French culture (“cultivation; culture”), from Latin cultūra (“cultivation; culture”), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate, worship”) (related to colōnus and colōnia), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

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• Rhymes: -yːr
• IPA^(key): /kʏlˈtyːr/
• Hyphenation: cul‧tuur

Noun

cultuur f (plural culturen, diminutive cultuurtje n)

1. culture (practices and beliefs particular to a society or group)
2. culture (arts, historic heritage and media as a sector)
3. culture, cultivation (tillage of crops)
4. culture (collective of microorganisms)
5. culture (collection of artificially bred bacteria or fungi)