verb
- Foster the growth of.
- synonyms: cultivate
- Prepare for crops.
- usage: "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
- Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
- usage: "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
- Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.
- usage: "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
- synonyms: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
adjective
- Of land or fields. ( prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing)
- usage: "cultivated land"
- No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use.
- usage: "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries"
- Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
- usage: "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
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