Meaning

• The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize 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 of the accepted norms and values of a society.

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

• Cultivation.

• The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

• The growth thus produced.

  "I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died."

• A group of bacteria.

• 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.

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

Meaning

• To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)

• To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)