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1. (farming) foster the growth of
    
2. (farming) prepare for crops
   "cultivate the land";
   - crop, work
    
3. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   "Cultivate your musical taste";
   - educate, school, train, civilize, civilise [Brit]
    
4. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   "cultivate oats";
   - domesticate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit], tame

Derived forms: cultivated, cultivating, cultivates

Type of: accommodate, adapt, down [informal], fine-tune, fix, gear up, polish, prepare, ready, refine, set, set up

Encyclopedia: Cultivate