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cultivate (verb), cultivates; cultivated, cultivating
1. To prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; to till the earth.
2. To use a cultivator on.
3. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) by labor and attention.
4. To produce by culture: to cultivate a strain of bacteria.
5. To develop or improve by education or training; to train; to refine: to cultivate a singing voice.
6. To promote the growth or development of (an art, science, etc.); to foster.
7. To devote oneself to (an art, science, etc.).
8. To seek to promote or to foster (friendship, love, etc.).
9. To seek the acquaintance or friendship of (a person).
2. To use a cultivator on.
3. To promote or improve the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) by labor and attention.
4. To produce by culture: to cultivate a strain of bacteria.
5. To develop or improve by education or training; to train; to refine: to cultivate a singing voice.
6. To promote the growth or development of (an art, science, etc.); to foster.
7. To devote oneself to (an art, science, etc.).
8. To seek to promote or to foster (friendship, love, etc.).
9. To seek the acquaintance or friendship of (a person).
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cult-, -cultural, -culture, -cultures, -culturally, -cultrist
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cultivated (adjective), more cultivated, most cultivated
1. Prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; such as, "cultivate land".
2. No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use.
3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
2. No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use.
3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
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(Latin: animating, enlivening; vigorous, vigor, active; to be alive, activity, to quicken; then a quickening action of growing; a specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb, or root" is first recorded in 1767; the differences between the meanings from its original links with "life, liveliness" was completed in the early twentieth century, when vegetable came to be used for an "inactive person".)