cultured
adjective
[ ˈkʌltʃəd ]
• characterized by refined taste and manners and good education.
• "a cultured and intelligent man"
Similar:
cultivated,
artistic,
enlightened,
civilized,
educated,
well educated,
well read,
well informed,
learned,
knowledgeable,
discerning,
discriminating,
with good taste,
refined,
polished,
sophisticated,
urbane,
intellectual,
highbrow,
scholarly,
erudite,
arty,
• (of tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) grown or propagated in an artificial medium.
• "cultured tumour cells"
culture
verb
• maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth.
• "several investigators have attempted to culture biliary cells"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a cultivated piece of land): the noun from French culture or directly from Latin cultura ‘growing, cultivation’; the verb from obsolete French culturer or medieval Latin culturare, both based on Latin colere ‘tend, cultivate’ (see cultivate). In late Middle English the sense was ‘cultivation of the soil’ and from this (early 16th century), arose ‘cultivation (of the mind, faculties, or manners’); culture (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the early 19th century.
