Meaning of CULTURED
| Pronunciation: | | 'kulchurd
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| | Definition: | | [adj] marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" |
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| | Synonyms: | | civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite, refined |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a.
1. Under culture; cultivated. ``Cultured vales.''
--Shenstone.
2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined;
refined; well-educated.
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured
people, is less often met with than other mental
endowments. --I. Taylor.
The cunning hand and cultured brain. --Whittier.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cultivated, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, distingue, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wise |
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