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US
/ˈkəɫtəˌveɪt/
]
[ UK /kˈʌltɪvˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌltɪvˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
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prepare for crops
Work the soil
cultivate the land -
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
tame the soil
domesticate oats -
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
Train your tastebuds
She is well schooled in poetry
Cultivate your musical taste - foster the growth of
How To Use cultivate In A Sentence
- The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
- Already the banks of the St. Lawrence below Quebec were laid out in seigniories, and the farms were tolerably well cultivated. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
- Until the advent of synthetic dyes, woad was cultivated in great plantations that were for a time a mainstay in some colonial economies. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
- This species was a cultivated tree, or possibly a survivor of natural woodland in the area, on the campus of the University at São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo state, in south-east Brazil.
- The franchise mode has been expanded with a scouting report and a minor league system that will let hands on managers cultivate talent.
- * I wonder how much of this has to do with their positions (obviously Edwards had a mind like few others, but one has to take into account also that he husbanded and cultivated that gift responsibly): Edwards was a public man in his capacity as a pastor; can it be said that Whitefield was only a pastor in his capacity as a public man? from → Observations The Sage of Northampton « Unknowing
- Mould - breaking strategies grow initially like weeds. They are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.
- Acorus calamus plants originated from the Moossee, and were cultivated in a pond at the University of St Andrews.
- They also deprive Australian livestock of food by scouring the cultivated rangelands, which also facilitates erosion.
- The tree is native to South America but is widely cultivated throughout the tropics.