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The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought.
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These patterns, traits, and products considered as the expression of a particular period, class, community, or population: Edwardian culture; Japanese culture; the culture of poverty.
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These patterns, traits, and products considered with respect to a particular category, such as a field, subject, or mode of expression: religious culture in the Middle Ages; musical culture; oral culture.
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The predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize the functioning of a group or organization.
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Intellectual and artistic activity and the works produced by it.
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American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.