Cultures 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. The growth thus produced. 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. To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate) To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)