Culture

From the Encyclopedia Galactica:

CULTURE
1 :  cultivation, tillage

2 :  the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education

3 :  expert care and training 

4 a :  enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training

b :  acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills

5a :  the integrated pattern of sentient knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations

b :  the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also:  the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time 

c :  the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization 

d :  the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic 

6:  the act or process of cultivating living material (as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient media; also :  a product of such cultivation

