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cul·ti·vate

(kŭl′tə-vāt′)

tr.v. cul·ti·vat·ed, cul·ti·vat·ing, cul·ti·vates

a. To improve and prepare (land), as by plowing or fertilizing, for raising crops; till.

b. To loosen or dig soil around (growing plants).

2. To grow or tend (a plant or crop).

3. To promote the growth of (a biological culture).

4. To encourage or foster: cultivate a respect for the law. See Synonyms at nurture.

5. To acquire, develop, or refine, as by education: cultivating a posh accent.

6. To seek the acquaintance or goodwill of; make friends with: cultivated the club's new members.

[Medieval Latin cultīvāre, cultīvāt-, from cultīvus, tilled, from Latin cultus, past participle of colere, to till; see k^wel- in Indo-European roots.]

cul′ti·vat′a·ble adj.

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cultivate

(ˈkʌltɪˌveɪt)

vb (tr)

1. (Agriculture) to till and prepare (land or soil) for the growth of crops

2. (Agriculture) to plant, tend, harvest, or improve (plants) by labour and skill

3. (Agriculture) to break up (land or soil) with a cultivator or hoe

4. to improve or foster (the mind, body, etc) as by study, education, or labour

5. to give special attention to: to cultivate a friendship; to cultivate a hobby.

6. to give or bring culture to (a person, society, etc); civilize

7. (Biology) biology to grow cells, bacteria, etc in a culture

[C17: from Medieval Latin cultivāre to till, from Old French cultiver, from Medieval Latin cultīvus cultivable, from Latin cultus cultivated, from colere to till, toil over]

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cul•ti•vate

(ˈkʌl təˌveɪt)

v.t. -vat•ed, -vat•ing.

1. to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.

2. to use a cultivator on.

3. to promote or improve the growth of (a plant or crop) 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 cultivate a talent.

6. to promote the growth or development of (an art, science, etc.).

7. to devote oneself to (an art, science, etc.).

8. to seek to promote or foster (friendship, love, etc.).

9. to seek the acquaintance or friendship of (a person).

[1610–20; < Medieval Latin cultīvātus, past participle of cultīvāre to till, derivative of cultīvus cultivable (Latin cult(us), past participle of colere to care for, till + -īvus -ive)]

cultivate

Past participle: cultivated
Gerund: cultivating

Imperative
cultivate
cultivate

Present
I cultivate
you cultivate
he/she/it cultivates
we cultivate
you cultivate
they cultivate

Preterite
I cultivated
you cultivated
he/she/it cultivated
we cultivated
you cultivated
they cultivated

Present Continuous
I am cultivating
you are cultivating
he/she/it is cultivating
we are cultivating
you are cultivating
they are cultivating

Present Perfect
I have cultivated
you have cultivated
he/she/it has cultivated
we have cultivated
you have cultivated
they have cultivated

Past Continuous
I was cultivating
you were cultivating
he/she/it was cultivating
we were cultivating
you were cultivating
they were cultivating

Past Perfect
I had cultivated
you had cultivated
he/she/it had cultivated
we had cultivated
you had cultivated
they had cultivated

Future
I will cultivate
you will cultivate
he/she/it will cultivate
we will cultivate
you will cultivate
they will cultivate

Future Perfect
I will have cultivated
you will have cultivated
he/she/it will have cultivated
we will have cultivated
you will have cultivated
they will have cultivated

Future Continuous
I will be cultivating
you will be cultivating
he/she/it will be cultivating
we will be cultivating
you will be cultivating
they will be cultivating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been cultivating
you have been cultivating
he/she/it has been cultivating
we have been cultivating
you have been cultivating
they have been cultivating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been cultivating
you will have been cultivating
he/she/it will have been cultivating
we will have been cultivating
you will have been cultivating
they will have been cultivating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been cultivating
you had been cultivating
he/she/it had been cultivating
we had been cultivating
you had been cultivating
they had been cultivating

Conditional
I would cultivate
you would cultivate
he/she/it would cultivate
we would cultivate
you would cultivate
they would cultivate

Past Conditional
I would have cultivated
you would have cultivated
he/she/it would have cultivated
we would have cultivated
you would have cultivated
they would have cultivated

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Verb	1.	cultivate - foster the growth of farming, husbandry, agriculture - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock farm, produce, raise, grow - cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
	2.	cultivate - prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" crop, work farming, husbandry, agriculture - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock gear up, prepare, ready, set, fix, set up - make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" knead, work - make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft" overcrop, overcultivate - to exhaust by excessive cultivation; "the farmers overcropped the land"
	3.	cultivate - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" civilise, civilize, school, educate, train fine-tune, refine, polish, down - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" sophisticate - make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
	4.	cultivate - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" domesticate, tame, naturalise, naturalize plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion adapt, accommodate - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"

cultivate

verb

1. farm, work, plant, tend, till, harvest, plough, bring under cultivation She cultivated a small garden of her own.

2. develop, establish, acquire, foster, devote yourself to, pursue Try to cultivate a positive mental attitude.

3. court, associate with, seek out, run after, consort with, butter up, dance attendance upon, seek someone's company or friendship, take trouble or pains with He only cultivates people who may be of use to him.

4. foster, further, forward, encourage She went out of her way to cultivate his friendship.

5. improve, better, train, discipline, polish, refine, elevate, enrich, civilize My father encouraged me to cultivate my mind.

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cultivate

verb

1. To prepare (soil) for the planting and raising of crops:

culture, dress, tend, till, work.

2. To bring into existence and foster the development of:

breed, grow, propagate, raise.

3. To promote and sustain the development of:

foster, nourish, nurse, nurture.

Translations

يَزرَع، يُرَبّييَفْلَح، يَحْرُث الأرض

obdělávat půdupěstovat

dyrkekultivereudvikle

anbauen bebauen bestellen kultivieren pflegen

καλλιεργώ

cultivar

herättääviljellä

cultiver forcer

brjóta land til ræktunarrækta

coltivare coltivatore coltivazione curare educare

apdirbimasauginimasdirbamasdirbimasdirbti

audzētkultivēt

telen verbouwen

kultivere

gojitiobdelovati

tarlayı sürüp ekmeküretmek yetiştirmek

栽培耕作

cultivate

[ˈkʌltɪveɪt] VT

1. [+ crop, land, friendships] → cultivar

2. (fig) [+ habit] → cultivar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cultivate

[ˈkʌltɪveɪt] vt

[+ ground, fields] → cultiver; [+ plants, crops] → cultiver

(= develop) [+ one's image] → cultiver; [+ one's reputation] → entretenir, cultiver; [+ friendship, relationship] → cultiver; [+ person] → cultiver; [+ habit, sense of humour, talent] → cultiver

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cultivate

(lit) → kultivieren; soil → bebauen, kultivieren; crop, fruit etc → anbauen; beard → wachsen lassen

(fig) friendship, links etc → pflegen, kultivieren; art, skill, taste → entwickeln; sb → sich (dat) → warmhalten (inf), → die Beziehung zu … pflegen; a connection like that is definitely worth cultivating → es lohnt sich bestimmt, so eine Verbindung aufrechtzuerhalten; to cultivate one’s mind → sich bilden

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cultivate

[ˈkʌltɪˌveɪt] vt (also) (fig) → coltivare

cultivate

(ˈkaltiveit) verb

1. to prepare (land) for crops.

2. to grow (a crop in a garden, field etc). He cultivates mushrooms in the cellar.

ˈcultivated adjective

1. (of fields etc) prepared for crops; used for growing crops. cultivated land.

2. grown in a garden etc; not wild. a cultivated variety of raspberries.

3. having good manners; educated. a cultivated young lady; He has cultivated tastes in music.

ˌcultiˈvation noun

ˈcultivator noun

a tool or machine for breaking up ground and removing weeds.

cultivate

vt. cultivar; estudiar.

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Consider the intimate and curious acquaintance one makes with various kinds of weeds -- it will bear some iteration in the account, for there was no little iteration in the labor -- disturbing their delicate organizations so ruthlessly, and making such invidious distinctions with his hoe, levelling whole ranks of one species, and sedulously cultivating another.

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The Ionic School of Epic poetry was, as we have seen, dominated by the Homeric tradition, and while the style and method of treatment are Homeric, it is natural that the Ionic poets refrained from cultivating the ground tilled by Homer, and chose for treatment legends which lay beyond the range of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey".

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One of the chief difficulties was that the process of cultivating the land was in full swing, that it was impossible to stop everything and begin it all again from the beginning, and the machine had to be mended while in motion.

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This spot is notorious from having been, for a long time, the residence of some runaway slaves, who, by cultivating a little ground near the top, contrived to eke out a subsistence.

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They put me to work cultivating in a patch of melons.

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It was limited to Diana and Anne at first, but soon it was extended to include Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis and one or two others who felt that their imaginations needed cultivating. No boys were allowed in it--although Ruby Gillis opined that their admission would make it more exciting--and each member had to produce one story a week.

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The State government seeks to harvest 17,000 tonnes of rice and 11,000 tonnes of maize by cultivating 6,600 hectares of land at the end of the planting season in 2019.

Edo Govt Receives N5bn CBN Loan For Rice, Maize Production

All 36 districts in the province are suitable for cultivating strawberries.

Strawberry cultivation at its peak

Synopsis: The much-needed message of "Cultivating Spiritual Maturity: The Courage to Practice" by Lalitha Thomas is that spiritual practice is not a weekend hobby or an activity for adolescent seekers (of any age).

Cultivating Spiritual Maturity

In today's environment of no-till planting and chemical weed control, no one thinks about the job of cultivating row crops, which was, at one time, very important.

Remembering the early cultivator

Five people had been cultivating the precious land of the forest department for about a decade which was brought into the notice of the ACE Gujrat circle by a local.

75 acre forest department land retrieved

The Divisional Commissioner Mirpurkhas Abdul Waheed Shaikh has said that a report should be given of complete survey of cultivation of the vegetables outside the homes and aggregated their land and for cultivating the feed for the livestock in the low cost cline water in Tharparkar District within a month so that peoples of Tharparkar become self sustainable.

Commissioner Abdul Waheed Shaikh orders to complete survey for cultivating the feed for the livestock

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