Definition of Culture

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Culture

The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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.

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.

To cultivate; to educate.

The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions.

The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.

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.

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Culture Quotations

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mohandas Gandhi

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Mohandas Gandhi

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mohandas Gandhi

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

Culture Translations

culture in Afrikaans is kultuur
culture in Dutch is cultuur, teelt, beschaving, bouw
culture in German is Kultur
culture in Latin is humanitas
culture in Portuguese is cultura
culture in Spanish is cultura
culture in Swedish is kultur

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