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cultured

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cul·tured  (klchrd)
adj.
1. Educated, polished, and refined; cultivated.
2. Produced under artificial and controlled conditions: cultured pearls.

cultured
Adjective
1. showing good taste or manners
2. artificially grown or synthesized
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.cultured - marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

cultured
Translations
cultured [ˈkʌltʃəd] adjculto
cultured [ˈkʌltʃəd] adjcultivé(e) (fig)
cultured [ˈkʌltʃəd] culture adjkultiviert;
(pearl) → Zucht-
cultured [ˈkʌltʃəd] adjcolto/a


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If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
He displayed the consideration of a cultured gentleman who knew what was due.
But as time went on and English became once more the language of the educated as well as of the uneducated, there arose a cultured English, which became the language which we speak to-day.
 
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