¦ 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'.