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, agriculture) 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.)
(transitive) to maintain in an environment suitable for growth
(transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest