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cultured [ˈkʌltʃəd] adj
1. showing or having good taste, manners, upbringing, and education 2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) artificially grown or synthesized cultured pearls ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
cultured adjective refined, advanced, polished, intellectual, educated, sophisticated, accomplished, scholarly, enlightened, knowledgeable, well-informed, genteel, urbane, erudite, highbrow, well-bred, well-read He is a cultured man with a wide circle of friends. common, coarse, vulgar, uneducated, unrefined, inelegant, uncultivated, unpolished Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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