culture
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚ/ noun A1- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
- Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- Cultivation. · http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- The growth thus produced. · I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.
- A group of bacteria.
Plural cultures
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And they have physical culture exercises every morning and evening.
Finally, he is anxious to see if you have been fortunate enough to escape the bad moral influence to which you have been exposed, and which is infinitely more to be dreaded than any physical suffering; he wishes to discover if the fine abilities with which nature had endowed you have been weakened by want of culture; and, in short, whether you consider yourself capable of resuming and retaining in the world the high position to which your rank entitles you.”
Everything was so strange, so brilliant, so bewildering--the rows of ladies in evening dress, the critical faces, the whole atmosphere of wealth and culture about her.
We have physical culture exercises every day, too.
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