Definitions for cultured

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cultured cul·tured

Spelling: [kuhl-cherd]

IPA: /ˈkʌl tʃərd/

Cultured is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in cultured (cdelrtuu).

Definitions for cultured

noun

1. the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
2. that which is excellent in the arts, manners, etc.
3. a particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period:
4. development or improvement of the mind by education or training.
5. the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group:
6. Anthropology. the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.
7. Biology. the cultivation of microorganisms, as bacteria, or of tissues, for scientific study, medicinal use, etc. the product or growth resulting from such cultivation.
8. the act or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage.
9. the raising of plants or animals, especially with a view to their improvement.
10. the product or growth resulting from such cultivation.

adjective

1. enlightened; refined.
2. artificially nurtured or grown:
3. cultivated; tilled.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to culture; cultivate.
2. Biology. to grow (microorganisms, tissues, etc.) in or on a controlled or defined medium. to introduce (living material) into a culture medium.

Origin of cultured

First recorded in 1735-45; culture + -ed²

Examples for cultured

Stephens, a sociologist at Cardiff University, has spent years studying the development of “cultured” meat.

Such is the testimony of one of the most cultured men in Italy.

The cultured, too, and the wise, are counted among thy slaves.

He could not guess her station, but the speech that reached him was cultured in tone and word.

The idea was conceived by a food scientist at Brigham Young University, who added dry ice to the cultured dairy on a lark.

There are at least 20 strains of cultured yeast that will do that for you.

True to her later pattern of falling for cultured men, she was drawn to his “intellect” and his “love of classical music.”

Because we live in a cultural stereotype and only men watch sports, only women are cultured, Mars, Venus, etc.

She fully intended to become all that a cultured young woman should be.

"That boy will go far," I heard one cultured old gentleman say.