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What (who) is cultivate - definition
cultivate
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Cultivate; Cultivated; Cultivation (disambiguation)
¦ verb
1. prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.
grow (plants), especially on a large scale for commercial purposes.
2. Biology grow or maintain (living cells or tissue) in culture.
3. try to acquire or develop (a quality or skill).
try to win the friendship or favour of.
4. [as adjective cultivated] refined and well educated.
Derivatives
cultivable adjective
cultivatable adjective
cultivator noun
Origin
C17: from med. L. cultivat-, cultivare, from cultiva (terra) 'arable (land)', from colere 'cultivate, inhabit'.
cultivate
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Cultivate; Cultivated; Cultivation (disambiguation)
(cultivates, cultivating, cultivated)
1.
If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
She also cultivated a small garden of her own.
...the few patches of cultivated land.
VERB: V n, V-ed
• cultivation
...the cultivation of fruits and vegetables...
Farmers with many acres under cultivation profited.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, prep N
2.
If you cultivate an attitude, image, or skill, you try hard to develop it and make it stronger or better.
Cultivating a positive mental attitude towards yourself can reap tremendous benefits.
VERB: V n
• cultivation
...the cultivation of a positive approach to life and health.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
3.
If you cultivate someone or cultivate a friendship with them, you try hard to develop a friendship with them.
Howe carefully cultivated Daniel C. Roper, the Assistant Postmaster General...
Estonia has done much to cultivate the friendship of western European countries.
VERB: V n, V n
cultivate
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Cultivate; Cultivated; Cultivation (disambiguation)
v. a.
1.
Till, prepare for crops, raise crops from, improve by husbandry.
2.
Improve, refine, elevate, civilize, meliorate, make better, train, discipline, develop.
3.
Study, investigate, pursue, search into.
4.
Foster, cherish, promote, nourish, patronize.
Examples of use of cultivate
1. "I don‘t know where I can cultivate or what I am going to cultivate," he says.
2. "Cultivate your relationships with teachers," IvyWise advises.
3. Potential presidential candidates come to cultivate their bases.
4. To cultivate their souls and not just their minds.
5. I cultivate coca leaf, which is a natural product.