[{"word":"cultures","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Cultivation.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The growth thus produced.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died."},{"definition":"A group of bacteria.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/culture","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cultures"]}]