Words at Play : Big Words on Campus
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When students return to campus each year, we see a spike in lookups of terms popular in academia. We hope this list helps shed light on these words.
Definition:
: the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time
Example:
"Architectures of Globalization: Contested Spaces of Global Culture" – title of a course at University of California, Berkeley
About the Word:
Culture has an ancestor in the Latin cultura, meaning "cultivation." Both land (agricultura) and people (cultura animi, "cultivation of the soul," in the words of the Roman Cicero) can be cultivated ("improved by labor, care, or study").
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