Gadit

cultivated

Definitions (2)
1adjectiveRefined and well-educated, showing good taste and manners.
She is a cultivated woman who enjoys art and literature.
His cultivated manners impressed everyone at the dinner party.
The cultivated audience appreciated the subtlety of the performance.
2adjectivePrepared and used for growing crops or plants.
The cultivated fields stretched as far as the eye could see.
They bought a piece of cultivated land to start their farm.
The garden was beautifully cultivated with a variety of flowers.
Word Origin
Language
Latin
Original word
cultivatus
Word parts
cultus (care, cultivation) + -atus (suffix forming adjectives)
Originally meant
to care for, to till
Background
The word 'cultivated' comes from the Latin 'cultivatus', which means to care for or to till. It was originally used in agriculture to describe land that was prepared for growing crops. Over time, it also came to describe people who are refined and well-educated.