Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cultured
IPA transcription: [k'ʌltʃɚd]
Pronunciations of cultured
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite
    Meaning: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
Usage examples
  • Then there was the cultured and devoted Aurelia, the mother of Julius Caesar.
  • Her lively and refined taste, and her highly cultured mind, could not refrain from responding to these glorious spectacles.
  • "Among the ancient cultured nations of Egypt and Assyria handicrafts had already come to a stage which could only have been reached by thousands of years of progress.
  • Alethia pounced on it, in the expectation of finding a cultured literary endorsement of the censure which these rough farming men had expressed in their homely, honest way.
  • So you see how ridiculous this young girl, by the betrayal of such ignorance, made herself in conversation with a cultured young gentleman whose good opinion she was most anxious to win.
  • But there is one city on the globe not nearly as large as Des Moines, not at all beautiful, its people neither cultured nor learned, has no factories and one narrow gauge railway takes care of most of its commerce, and yet it is by far the most famous city of all time.
  • I dare say that the highly civilized lady reading this will smile at an old fool of a hunter's simplicity when she thinks of her black bead-bedecked sister; and so will the superfine cultured idler scientifically eating a dinner at his club, the cost of which would keep a starving family for a week.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Moe Berg, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Saint Peter, License CC BY-SA 4.0