culturistn.
/ˈkʌltʃ(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈkəltʃərəst/ 1. Now chiefly Biology. Chiefly as the second element of compounds. A person involved in the cultivation or culture of animals, plants, microoganisms, etc., esp. in a professional capacity.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun]
tiliec1000
acremanOE
husbanda1300
husbandmanc1384
farmer1528
breeder1547
farmeress1595
colona1640
agricole1656
georgic1703
agricultor1766
Farmer Giles1770
agriculturer1776
agriculturalist1788
culturist1814
fazendeiro1825
bartoner1832
agriculturist1849
culturalist1866
farmerette1901
dry-land farmer1914
drylander1921
Eurofarmer1957
multiplier1969
pick-your-owner1969
1814 G. V. Sampson Mem. Explanatory Chart & Surv. County London-Derry ii. 152 From an unassuming culturist I learn this only rescript and reprisal.
1824 Relig. Misc. 19 Mar. 142/1 The labors of the moral culturist become continually more inefficient and the waste of the soil more waste and wild of culture still.
1839 J. d'Homergue (title) The silk culturist's manual.
1858 J. H. Walden Soil Culture 282 The first study of a soil culturist should be to ascertain how he shall..mix and manage the materials at his command.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) ix. 97 The naturalist and fish culturist.
1914 P. W. Humphreys Pract. Bk. Garden Archit. 17 The celebrated fruit culturist..may also be justly famous for the decorative accessories of his charming home.
1965 Exper. Cell Res. 37 614 The limited in vitro multiplication of many kinds of cultured cells has been a common observation of cell culturists.
1998 New Scientist 7 Nov. 77 (advt.) A vacancy exists for a tissue culturist within the Plant Sciences Unit.
2. An advocate or devotee of culture.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [noun] > polite learning, culture > lover of culture
culturist1870
culture vulture1945
kulturhund1946
1870 J. C. Shairp Culture & Relig. i. 7 The Culturists..by which term I mean not those who esteem culture..but those..who recommend it as the one panacea for all the ills of humanity.
1889 Harper's Mag. May 936/1 Adventists, socialists, spiritualists, culturists.
1939 R. F. Butts College charts its Course i. 2 The culturists have opposed vigorously the tendencies of the colleges to stress ‘practical’ or ‘vocational’ studies.
1948 Rev. Eng. Stud. 24 73 The fashions, affectations, and dogmas of school-men and culturists.
2006 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 2 Dec. 40 West contrasts his culturists with the equally affluent but irretrievably vulgar materialists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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