Culture

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation.

(2): (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.

(3): (v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.

(4): (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.

(5): (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.

(6): (n.) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms in artificial media or under artificial conditions.

(7): (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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]

kul´t̬ū̇r  : Found only in 2 Esdras 8:6 the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American), "give ... culture to our understanding," i.e. to nourish it as seed in the ground.

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