cult-, -cultural, -culture, -cultures, -culturally, -cultrist +

A subculture or smaller grouing within a culture holding values directly opposite to those generally accepted by the host culture; also called counterculture.

Feces for the cultivation and detection of pathogenic micro-organisms.

1. From Latin cultus "cultivation, care, attention, worship", from cult-, stem of colere "to till, cultivate, attend to".
2. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
3. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
4. Usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
6. An exclusive group of people sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.

Latin colere meant "inhabit, cultivate", and also "worship". The notion of "inhabiting" is reflected in its descendant colony, but its past participial stem cult- has bequeathed us other aspects of its meaning.

"Worship" is represented by cult which was acquired via French culte or directly from Latin cultus.

"Developing the land" appears in cultivate, from the medieval Latin derivative cultivare, and by metaphorical extension in culture, from French culture, which originally meant "piece of tilled land".

1. A cultivated plant of unknown or obscure taxonomic origin.
2. An organism, especially a cultivated plant; such as, a banana, not known to have a wild or uncultivated counterpart.

A member of a cult as applicable under cult (above).

Capable of undergoing cultivation: cultivable land.

1. A race or variety of a plant that has been created or selected intentionally and maintained through cultivation.
2. A variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation.

A reference to farmland which is capable of being farmed productively.

1. To prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; to till the earth.
2. To use a cultivator on.
3. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) by labor and attention.
4. To produce by culture: to cultivate a strain of bacteria.
5. To develop or improve by education or training; to train; to refine: to cultivate a singing voice.
6. To promote the growth or development of (an art, science, etc.); to foster.
7. To devote oneself to (an art, science, etc.).
8. To seek to promote or to foster (friendship, love, etc.).
9. To seek the acquaintance or friendship of (a person).

1. Prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; such as, "cultivate land".
2. No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use.
3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.

1. In agriculture, the production of food by preparing the land to grow crops.
2. Socialization through training and education.
3. A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality.

1. Someone who is concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil.
2. A farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture.

Improved cultivators of the mid-19th century contributed greatly to increased agricultural production.

1. Of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors; "cultural events"; "a person of broad cultural interests".
2. Denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people.
3. Of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society; "cultural roots".
4. Relating to the raising of plants or animals; "a cultural variety".

Any fundamental change over time in the social and economic character of a given society.

Specifically, an earlier theory that cultures will naturally pass through certain progressive stages on the path to industrialization; that is, from hunger-gatherer societies to nomadism, to agricultural and pastoralism, and then ultimately to a modern industrial society.

A description of the habits, traditions and beliefs of a society: "Most countries are now existing in culturally diverse societies."