cultures
noun
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.
- To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)
- To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)
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