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/kˈəltʃərd/ Listen

verb

Culture v. t. (past & past part. cultured; pres. part. culturing) To cultivate; to educate. "They came... into places well inhabited and cultured."

adjective

Cultured adj.

Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales."

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." "The cunning hand and cultured brain."

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Etymology of 'Cultured'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cultured" Quotes from Famous Books

... was to all intents and purposes his own house rather than an hotel, and Mr. Briggs was only waiting for the seal of her approval to this invitation, she being the fourth hostess—when Mr. Wilkins, balancing his sentences and being admirably clear and enjoying the sound of his own cultured voice, explained the position in this manner to Lady Caroline, Briggs sat and ...

— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim

... ultimate and almost metaphysical truth, that a man can make a gun and a gun cannot make a man. It is the man—the Russian soldier and peasant himself—who has emerged like the hero of an epic, and who is now secure for ever from the sophisticated scandal-mongering and the cultured ...

— Lord Kitchener • G. K. Chesterton

... wonder you need it," a friend of the more aesthetically cultured type remarked one evening, finding him doing it. "You've been playing round with the Urquhart-Fitzmaurice lot to-day, haven't you? Nice man, Fitzmaurice, isn't he? I like his tie-pins. You know, we almost lost him last summer. He hung in the balance, and ...

— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay

... of one of the most cultured and princely of the Popes. Born in 1398, he was himself one of the sons of the early Renaissance. Not altogether without pedantry, he yet by his learning, by his patronage of scholars and artists (and indeed he was perhaps the first Pope who preferred them ...

— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton

... ambassador with sterner qualities. I preferred not. Terniloff is the man to gull fools, because he is a fool himself. He is a fit ambassador for a country which has not the wit to arm itself on land as well as by sea, when it sees a nation, mightier, more cultured, more splendidly led than its ...

— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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