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UK
/kˈʌltɪvˌeɪtɪd/
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[ US /ˈkəɫtəˌveɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈkəɫtəˌveɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing
cultivated land -
marked by refinement in taste and manners
cultivated speech
polite society
cultured Bostonians
cultured tastes
a genteel old lady -
no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
cultivated roses
cultivated blackberries
How To Use cultivated 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.
- * 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.
- Over the years, the giant retailer, in exercising its own brand of censorship, has forced recording artists to change lyrics, 'sanitize' album covers, removed certain 'objectionable' magazines from its racks, and generally cultivated its own corporate sense of what the public should or shouldn't see. Al Norman: Wal-Mart Picks Free Speech Fight with Union
