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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Culture \Cul"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultured} (-t?rd; 135); p. pr & vb n. {Culturing}.] To cultivate; to educate. They came . . . into places well inhabited and cultured. --Usher. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cultured \Cul"tured\ (k?l"t?rd), a. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cultured adj : marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: {civilized}, {cultivated}, {genteel}, {polite}]
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