culture

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə/

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.