culture: meaning and definitions

The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.

These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.

These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.

The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.

Intellectual and artistic activity and the works produced by it.

Development of the intellect through training or education.

Enlightenment resulting from such training or education.

A high degree of taste and refinement formed by aesthetic and intellectual training.

Special training and development: voice culture for singers and actors.

The cultivation of soil; tillage.

The breeding of animals or growing of plants, especially to produce improved stock.

Biology The growing of microorganisms, tissue cells, or other living matter in a specially prepared nutrient medium.

Biology Such a growth or colony, as of bacteria.

To cultivate.

To grow (microorganisms or other living matter) in a specially prepared nutrient medium.

To use (a substance) as a medium for culture: culture milk.