- (v.t.) To cultivate; to educate.
- (n.) The act or practice of cultivating or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
- (n.) The act of or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
- (n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
- (n.) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
- (n.) Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels.
- (n.) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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