cultured Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb grow in a special preparation
    culture.
    • the biologist grows microorganisms
  2. adjective satellite marked by refinement in taste and manners
    civilised; polite; civilized; genteel; cultivated.
    • cultivated speech
    • cultured Bostonians
    • cultured tastes
    • a genteel old lady
    • polite society

WordNet


Cul"tured adjective
Definitions
  1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone.
  2. 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. I. Taylor.
    The cunning hand and cultured brain. Whittier.

Webster 1913