culture

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.

(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

(botany) Cultivation.

(microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

The growth thus produced.

A group of bacteria.

(cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.

(archaeology) A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

(euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)