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adjective
- 1. refined and well educated: "he was a remarkably cultivated and educated man"
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CULTIVATE definition: 1. to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop: 2. to try to develop and…. Learn more.
The meaning of CULTIVATE is to prepare or prepare and use for the raising of crops; also : to loosen or break up the soil about (growing plants). How to use cultivate in a sentence.
Definition of cultivate verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. cultivate something to prepare and use land for growing plants or crops. The land around here has never been cultivated. The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations.
CULTIVATED definition: 1. Someone who is cultivated has had a good education and knows a lot about and likes art, music…. Learn more.
The meaning of CULTIVATED is refined, educated. How to use cultivated in a sentence.
CULTIVATE meaning: 1. to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop: 2. to try to develop and…. Learn more.
When used literally, cultivate means to take steps to grow something or improve its growth, especially crops. When used figuratively, it means much the same thing, except that the thing being grown or improved is often an abstract thing, such as a business or a friendship.
If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
To cultivate is to nurture and help grow. Farmers cultivate crops, fundraising professionals cultivate donors, and celebrities cultivate their images. When you cultivate something, you work to make it better. Originally, the word referred only to crops that required tilling, but the meaning has widened.
To go about, occupy, inhabit; to work, cultivate. (Latin colere.) Obsolete. transitive. To farm, cultivate, till (land, soil, etc.); = labour, v. 1b. Also: to cultivate (a plant or crop). to work the land: (originally)… transitive.
