n. - The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
n. - 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.
n. - 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.
v. t. - To cultivate; to educate.
n. - The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions.
n. - The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.
n. - 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.