Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cultivator; one who produces anything by cultivation.
  • noun An advocate of the spread of culture or the education of the intellectual and esthetic powers; especially, one who regards culture in this sense rather than religion as the central element in civilization.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A cultivator.
  • noun One who is an advocate of culture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who raises or cultures something; a cultivator.
  • noun An advocate of culture.
  • noun One who holds prejudices against a culture.
  • adjective Holding prejudices against a culture.

Etymologies

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culture +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • From the very first period of their coming under the care of the amateur fish culturist, that is to say, from the ova, just before hatching out, till they are yearlings, the mortality among them will be much greater than in the case of any of the trout.

    Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

  • And are your "culturist" assumptions anyway solid enough to serve as a basis for public policy?

    The Corner on National Review Online 2010

  • And are your "culturist" assumptions anyway solid enough to serve as a basis for public policy?

    The Corner on National Review Online 2010

  • He can do this by simply saying he is "culturist" not "racist."

    unknown title 2009

  • In gratitude and solidarity I offer him the use of the words 'culturist' and

    unknown title 2009

  • I grew up in Colorado during a time when every imaginable counter culturist could be found.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Intersection of Truth and Fiction 2009

  • The Next Great Poet will be media savvy camera friendly image conscious consumer culturist.

    Rugby Poets of Suburbia Frankie Sachs 2011

  • Dio, as he was called except when he was called “beautiful bran-eating Dio”, was no doctor—his MD was an honorary one granted by a college of homeopathy—but he was many other things: educator, physical culturist, health food advocate, bestselling author, and one of the more compelling platform speakers of the day, a large, robust man “profoundly confident in the omnipotence of his own ideas and the uselessness of all others.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Anyway, my Kotaku feature for this month is up today, and it continues the discussion on the difference between the average gamer and the fanatical culturist.

    Archive 2008-11-01 SVGL 2008

  • Anyway, my Kotaku feature for this month is up today, and it continues the discussion on the difference between the average gamer and the fanatical culturist.

    We Built Another World SVGL 2008

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