CULTURE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, cultivated land, cultivation, from Anglo-French, from Latin cultura, from cultus, past participle Date: 15th century cultivation , tillage , the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education, expert care and training , 4. enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training, acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills, 5. the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations, the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group, the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization , the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic , the act or process of cultivating living material (as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient media, II. transitive verb (~d; culturing) Date: 1510 cultivate , 2. to grow in a prepared medium, to start a ~ from