About The Word Cultivate

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Cultivate

Cultivate Meaning & Definition
Cultivate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cultivate?

[v] adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
[v] prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
[v] foster the growth of
[v] train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cultivate: civilise | civilize | crop | domesticate | educate | naturalise | naturalize | school | tame | train | work

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cultivate: advance | ameliorate | apprentice | approach | backset | beautify | better | break | break in | break the ice | breed | bring up | brown-nose | butter up | care for | carve | cherish | chisel | coddle | condition | convert | cosset | court | courteous | cradle | crop | cultivated | culture | cultured | cut | delve | develop | dig | discipline | distingue | dress | drill | dry-nurse | educate | elaborate | embellish | encourage | evolve | excite | exercise | extract | fallow | farm | feed | fertilize | fetch up | finish | fit | fondle | force | form | foster | further | groom | grow | harrow | harvest | hoe | housebreak | house-train | improve | instruct | labor | lavish care on | lick into shape | list | machine | make advances | make sensitive | make up to | manage | mature | mill | mine | mother | mulch | nourish | nurse | nurture | pamper | pay addresses to | pay court to | perfect | play up to | plow | polish | polished | polite | practice | prepare | process | produce | promote | propagate | prune | pump | put in tune | put to school | quicken | raise | rake | ready | rear | refine | refined | rehearse | ripen | run after | season | send to school | sensibilize | sensitize | sharpen | shine up to | smelt | spade | spoon-feed | stimulate | stir | suck up to | suckle | sustain | take in hand | teach | tend | thin | thin out | till | till the soil | train | urbane | weed | weed out | well-bred | wet-nurse | whet | woo | work | work on

See Also | accommodate | adapt | down | farm | fine-tune | gear up | grow | overcrop | overcultivate | polish | prepare | produce | raise | ready | refine | set | set up | sophisticate

Cultivate In Webster's Dictionary

\Cul"ti*vate\ (k?l"t?-v?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cultivated} (-v?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cultivating} (-v?`-t?ng).] [LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p. p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. {Colony}.] 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. --Wordsworth. 3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. --Burke. 4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. --Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. --Tillotson. 5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

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