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English Dictionary: cultured by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cultured
adj
  1. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
    Synonym(s): civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite
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. [bd]Cultured vales.[b8]
            --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.
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