資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura,
   fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf.
   {Colony}.]
   1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the
      earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the
      culture of the soil.

   2. 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.

            If vain our toil We ought to blame the culture, not
            the soil.                             --Pepe.

   3. 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.

            What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the
            Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to
            express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C.
                                                  Shairp.

            The list of all the items of the general life of a
            people represents that whole which we call its
            culture.                              --Tylor.

   {Culture fluid}, a fluid in which the germs of microscopic
      organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of
      study or as a means of modifying their virulence.