What does the word culture mean?

Usage examples for culture

  1. By degrees, as all this became manifest, shewed itself also the effect of culture, and the blessing of real education. – A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
  2. Nearest to our hearts, however, were many pictures of our own time, for we were moderns of the moderns, after all, in spite of our efforts of self- culture. – Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier