# cultures

Pronunciation: US say "KUL-churz" /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚz/; UK say "KUL-chuhz" /ˈkʌlt͡ʃəz/

## Noun

1. Plural of culture. — plural of culture
   - Simple: Plural of culture. Use this form when you mean more than one culture.
   - _The exhibit compares burial customs across several ancient cultures._
   - _The lab stored the bacterial cultures in a refrigerated incubator overnight._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of culture. — third-person singular simple present indicative of culture
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of culture. Use this when one person or thing does the action now.
   - _The hospital lab cultures each sample to identify the infection._
   - _Every spring, the brewery cultures its own yeast strains for the season._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cultures (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).