Verb: cultivate 'kúl-ti,veyt
- (farming) prepare for crops
"cultivate the land";
- crop, work
- Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
"cultivate oats";
- domesticate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit], tame
- Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
"Cultivate your musical taste";
- educate, school, train, civilize, civilise [Brit]
Derived forms: cultivating, cultivates, cultivated
Type of: accommodate, adapt, down [informal], fine-tune, fix, gear up, polish, prepare, ready, refine, set, set up
Encyclopedia: Cultivate