Cultured

/ˈkʌltʃərd/ adjective

Refined, educated, and knowledgeable about arts and literature; or grown artificially in a lab.

From Latin 'cultura' (cultivation), from 'colere' (to tend or cultivate). Applied to people in the 18th century to mean refined by education.

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