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[syn: civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cultured (-t?rd; 135);
p. pr. & vb. n. Culturing.]
To cultivate; to educate.
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They came . . . into places well inhabited and
cultured. --Usher.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a.
1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." --Shenstone.
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2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined;
refined; well-educated.
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The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured
people, is less often met with than other mental
endowments. --I. Taylor.
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The cunning hand and cultured brain. --Whittier.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cultured
adj 1: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated
speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a
genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized,
civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel,
polite]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "cultured":
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