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cul·tured
(kŭl′chərd)adj.
1. Educated, polished, and refined; cultivated.
2. Produced under artificial and controlled conditions: cultured pearls.
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cultured
(ˈkʌltʃəd)adj
1. showing or having good taste, manners, upbringing, and education
2. (Biology) artificially grown or synthesized: cultured pearls.
3. sport of superior quality, as though the product of special training: a cultured left foot; a cultured backhand.
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cul•tured
(ˈkʌl tʃərd)adj.
1. enlightened; refined.
2. artificially nurtured or grown: cultured bacteria.
3. cultivated; tilled.
[1735–45]
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| 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" |
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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
common, coarse, vulgar, uneducated, unrefined, inelegant, uncultivated, unpolished
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cultured
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Translations
مُثَقَّف، مُتَحَضّر، راقِ
kultivovaný
dannetkultiveret
menntaîur, fágaîur
kültürlü
cultured
[ˈkʌltʃəd]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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cultured
adj → kultiviert; (Agr, Biol, Med) → gezüchtet
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cultured
[ˈkʌltʃəd] adj (person, mind) → colto/a; (voice) → da persona colta; (manners) → raffinato/a; (pearl) → coltivato/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
culture
(ˈkaltʃə) noun1. a form or type of civilization of a certain race or nation. the Jewish culture.
2. improvement of the mind etc by education etc. He was an enthusiastic seeker of culture.
3. educated taste in art, literature, music etc. He thinks that anyone who dislikes Bach is lacking in culture.
4. (a) cultivated growth of bacteria etc.
5. the commercial rearing of fish, certain plants etc.
ˈcultural adjectiveˈcultured adjective
(negative uncultured) well-educated.
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