1. (

• educate ,
• school ,
• train ,
• cultivate ,
• civilize ,
• civilise

) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" ;

2. (

• civilize ,
• civilise ,

) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" ;

1. (

• civilized ,
• civilised

) having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world" ;

2. (

• civilized ,
• civilised ,
• cultivated ,
• cultured ,
• genteel ,
• polite

) marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" ;