cultivate
verb/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cultivate | /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/ |
| he / she / it cultivates | /ˈkʌltɪveɪts/ /ˈkʌltɪveɪts/ |
| past simple cultivated | /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ |
| past participle cultivated | /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form cultivating | /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪŋ/ /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪŋ/ |
- cultivate something to prepare and use land for growing plants or crops
- The land around here has never been cultivated.
- The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- intensively
- cultivate something to grow plants or crops synonym grow
- The people cultivate mainly rice and beans.
- Olives have been cultivated successfully in southern Australia.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- widely
- successfully
- cultivate somebody/something (sometimes disapproving) to try to get somebody’s friendship or support
- He purposely tried to cultivate good relations with the press.
- It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actively
- assiduously
- carefully
- …
- cultivate something to develop an attitude, a way of talking or behaving, etc.
- She cultivated an air of sophistication.
- This modern image is actively cultivated by the company.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- actively
- assiduously
- carefully
- …
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin cultivat- ‘prepared for crops’, from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’.
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