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Culture   /kˈəltʃər/   Listen
Culture

noun
1.
A particular society at a particular time and place.  Synonyms: civilisation, civilization.
2.
The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group.
3.
All the knowledge and values shared by a society.  Synonym: acculturation.
4.
(biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar).
5.
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality.  Synonyms: cultivation, finish, polish, refinement.  "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose" , "Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"
6.
The attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization.  "The reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture"
7.
The raising of plants or animals.
verb
(past & past part. cultured; pres. part. culturing)
1.
Grow in a special preparation.



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"Culture" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Dinaric ridges—combined with divergent political and economic possibilities, produced a dualism. The Croats on the Save and its tributaries naturally expanded westward and aspired to closer connection with the sea where their struggle with the remnants of Roman civilization and a superior culture absorbed their energies. They developed out of their tribal state more quickly, while the Serbs, further inland and amid more difficult surroundings, developed more slowly. The people who lived along the Save aspired to control the Dalmatian coast ...
— The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement • Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup Harper,

... of her advice, as to knock at Cecil's sitting-room door, and beg to ask her a question; and as she liked to be consulted, she welcomed him hospitably into that temple, sacred to culture and to Dunstone—full of ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge

... a means of his culture is almost universally underrated. The interest in causality that unfolds itself more and more vigorously with the learning of speech, the asking why, which is often almost unendurable to parents and educators, is fully justified, and ought not, as unfortunately is too often the case, ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... while reading a Cincinnati Sunday newspaper, I ran across an advertisement of a School of Elocution, in which was the statement, "Stammering Positively Cured!" Whenever I saw a sign "Vocal Culture" I became interested, so I clipped the advertisement, corresponded with the school and not many Sundays later, being able to secure excursion rates to Cincinnati, I made the trip and ...
— Stammering, Its Cause and Cure • Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

... frequently remonstrated against the innumerable little privations he voluntarily endured for this favorite purpose, for she attached more value to physical than mental gratifications, and could scarcely sympathize with his disinterested solicitude for his daughter's intellectual culture. It had been a great happiness to him to trace the gradual development of her intelligence, and to direct her simple studies; and it had been one of his last requests that I would in this respect occupy his place until she should be old enough to require other superintendence. ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various


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