Culture. From the Latin, colere ("to till, to cultivate"). In a general sense this term has been used for all human endeavors and enterprises, but in a narrower sense it has been used to designate the results in human society of the cultivation of the liberal arts. The term came into use in the 18th c. Spengler distinguished between culture and civilization, regarding the latter as the final stage in a society's development. Some have seen the civilizing process as continuous and the cultural as sporadic. At all events, the terms are not to be taken as synonymous. Although the term "culture" is of comparatively recent invention, it stands for a concept that is so embedded in the history of thought and life from antiquity that for long the need to name it could hardly have arisen.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)

culture : (f.) kasi; sabbhatā; sadācāra. (v.t.) bhāveti; vaḍḍheti. (pp.) bhāvita; vaḍḍhita.

A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera, Concise Pali-English and English-Pali Dictionary [available as digital version from Metta Net, Sri Lanka]