ABSTRACT
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin cultura, from cultus, past participle
Date: 15th century
- the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education expert care and training. - enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training; acquaintance with taste in the fíne arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills. - the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man’s (sic.) capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations; the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation. - cultivation of living material in prepared nutrient media; also a product of such cultivation.
