Culture is a noun meaning

1. A particular society at a particular time and place

2. The tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

3. All the knowledge and values shared by a society

4. Culture also refers to the nurturing of growing things....to cultivate....

Synonyms:

acculturation, acquired taste, agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture,
agrology, agronomics, agronomy, appreciation of excellence, background, backset, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore,
breed, breeding, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, class, classical scholarship, classicism, community, complex, contour farming, contour plowing, cultivate, cultivated taste, cultivating, cultivation, cultural drift, culture area, culture center, culture complex, culture conflict, culture contact, culture pattern, culture trait, customs, cut, daintiness, delicacy, delve, dig, dirt farming, discernment, discrimination, donnishness, dress, dressing, dry farming, dryland farming, education, elegance, enculturation, enlightenment, eruditeness, erudition, ethnic group, ethos, excellence, fastidiousness, fertilize, finesse, folkways, fruit farming, furrowing, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, good breeding, good taste, grace, grain farming, grow, humanism, humanistic scholarship, husbandry, intellectualism, intellectuality, keep, key trait, ladylikeness, learnedness, learning, letters, list, listing, literacy, mores, nation, nationality, niceness, nicety, nurture, pedantism, pedantry, people, polish, prune, quality, race, raise, ranch, reading, rear, refinement, run, rural economy, savoir faire, savoir-faire, scholarship, sharecropping, socialization, society, sophist, sophistication, spade, speech community, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, truck farming, urbanity, way of life

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