vt to cultivate; to educate.
2. culture ·add. ·noun the collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.
3. culture ·add. ·noun the cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
4. culture ·noun the act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
5. culture ·noun 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.
6. culture ·noun 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.
7. culture ·add. ·noun 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.