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cultured

/ˈkʌlt͡ʃəd/US/ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/

cultured adjective: learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined. Also the simple past and past participle of culture.

Adjective

cultured (comparative more cultured, superlative most cultured)

  1. Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
    • cultured students
    • cultured men
  2. Artificially developed.
    • cultured voice
    • cultured plant

Also used as

cultured is also the simple past and past participle of culture.

cultured meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

cultured in Hindi

civilized; refined
सभ्य sabhya

cultured in Urdu

ثقافت یافتہ, کلچر شدہ, کلچرڈ

cultured in Malayalam

സംസ്കാരമുള്ളവർ

cultured in Kannada

ಸುಸಂಸ್ಕೃತ
More languagesFewer languages
cultured in Nepali
संस्कारित
cultured in Arabic
مُثَقَّف muṯaqqaf

Examples of cultured in a sentence

  • Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
  • It then grew into a multicellular biobot after being cultured for two weeks.
  • Loss of matrix attachment of cultured epithelial cells activates a caspase-mediated apoptotic program known as anoikis.

All 32 example sentences with cultured

Synonyms of cultured

Antonyms

Forms of cultured

comparativemore cultured
superlativemost cultured

Words formed from cultured

Phrases with cultured

Questions about cultured

What does cultured mean?
Cultured means learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
What is cultured in Hindi?
Cultured in Hindi is सभ्य (sabhya). See Cultured meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is cultured?
Cultured is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cultured?
Cultured is pronounced /ˈkʌlt͡ʃɚd/ (US).

Words near cultured in the dictionary

  1. culture-vulture
  2. culture-vultures
  3. culturecidal
  4. culturecide
  5. culturecides
  6. cultured
  7. cultured meat
  8. cultured meats
  9. cultured stone
  10. culturedly
  11. culturedness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cultured (page history and authors); cultured (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cultured (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cultured (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cultured (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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