culturist

[ kuhl-cher-ist ]

noun

1. a cultivator.
2. an advocate or devotee of culture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of culturist¹

First recorded in 1820–30; culture + -ist

Example Sentences

After deciding to go digital, The Culturist Union began having entrepreneurship summits, yoga retreats, political information sessions and much more.

From Washington Times

Men are threatened by her power: Booker T. Washington says he’d “rather endorse a palm reader than a hair culturist.”

From Los Angeles Times

He began his career in 1994 as a wildlife culturist at a hatchery in Pecos and went on to become chief of fisheries.

From Washington Times

The cell line at the centre of The Vaccine Race, WI-38, was established in the 1960s by Leonard Hayflick, a driven cell culturist at the independent Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

From Nature

Daoud, the authors said, had based his argument on a discredited "culturist" analysis.

From BBC