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cultivate English

Meaning cultivate meaning

What does cultivate mean?
Definitions in simple English

cultivate Verb

— If you cultivate a crop, you grow it. By 3,600 years ago, farmers were cultivating cereals at a high altitude. — If you cultivate land, you grow crops on it. The government gave farmers the right to cultivate more than one million hectares of unused farmland. — If you cultivate a relationship, an image, or a skill, you develop it. An additional important strategy noted was the importance of cultivating relationships with people.

cultivate

— verb foster the growth of — verb (= crop, work) prepare for crops Work the soil cultivate the land — verb (= domesticate, tame) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment domesticate oats tame the soil — verb (= school, train) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment Cultivate your musical taste Train your tastebuds She is well schooled in poetry

Synonyms cultivate synonyms

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cultivate English » English

grow farm till plant raise educate plow develop tame plough civilize work foster dig sow refine care for train rear nurture humanize culture crop civilise teach reclaim improve hoe clear land breed advance work at support school nourish naturalize naturalise hone garden further farmland farming encourage domesticate work up work the soil work out wear beard turn over training

Topics cultivate topics

What do people use cultivate to talk about?
Work and occupation Agriculture

Growing crops
Work and occupation Agriculture Land preparation

Plow a field
Work and occupation Agriculture

Plant a field
Work and occupation Agriculture

Tend a field

Conjugation cultivate conjugation

How do you conjugate cultivate?

cultivate · verb

Examples cultivate examples

How do I use cultivate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must cultivate your mind.
We cultivate rice.
They cultivate fruit in here.

Movie subtitles

I don't intend to cultivate any either.
But as it is, we're going to cultivate every female dragon of the Old Guard.
Develop your practice cultivate the circle in which you and Beatrix shall move.
Maybe I should cultivate it.
Somebody told him which women to cultivate so he could load them with ice, take them out dancing, then slip to the phone and tell the boys where to operate.
Who will cultivate the land in Bogdaniec?
Cultivate? others to? No better than?
It's a failing you ought to cultivate, Fordyce.
What could be more vital than to find and cultivate a nourishing new food that cost nothing to grow?
I can't tell till I cultivate it.
He will follow the wise keepers, who don't cultivate only trees growing straight and high.
The wise sees, how to cultivate which character, how to correct flaws.
Here: He will follow the wise keepers, who don't cultivate only trees growing straight and high.
You see. after the war, the Thals that survived managed to cultivate small plots of land.
I want to cultivate the arts of peace.
Gems of art to cultivate the mind You have to buy.
So what do we do now, Gergor My dear Mirko, time to cultivate patience.
You should cultivate it.
Mrs. Charles thinks we should cultivate some people who haven't served time.
You better cultivate Linda too. because her folks are big muck-a-mucks around here.
You'll cultivate the land and live a long life.
You seem to have failed to cultivate purity in me.
Yussef ordered me to meet him and to cultivate his friendship, so I could report on his actions.
I'll cultivate land and raise cattle there.
I'm prepared to cultivate them.
Their reluctance to cultivate the soil.
You see, orchids have very little food value, and they're extremely difficult to cultivate in this climate.
Somebody told him which women to cultivate. so he could load them with ice, go out dancing. then slip to the phone and tell the boys where to operate.
Know what to destroy and what to cultivate.
You must try, Comrade Zilkov, to cultivate a sense of humour.
I don't cultivate female acquaintances, Mr. Wellby. It's a pity,. but I still do.
We'll cultivate flowers, for flower shows, very fashionable.
Nothing in your actions or words leads us to believe you cultivate that state.
You must cultivate a sense of urgency.
To cultivate instead of kill?
Remain united; forget your quarrels; cultivate friendship.
A poet is called upon to provoke a spiritual jolt and not to cultivate idolaters.
You cultivate them, and we'll see what comes of it.

News and current affairs

And just as these two Asian land powers cultivate Kim Jong Il, Washington is seeking talks over missiles with Pyongyang and Tokyo is eager to reestablish diplomatic relations with the North.
Nowadays, when it has become more important than ever that we embrace renewable resources, we should use the Sun to cultivate our energy, just as our ancestors used it to cultivate their food.
They empower citizens to cultivate their collective energy and develop their potential, and thus become drivers of their countries' growth and advancement in the world arena.
The very election by national suffrage of an executive provides the type of minimal consensus that India's faction-riven parliaments have, sadly, never been able to cultivate.
Thus, if we are to engender a more caring world, we must first recognize the importance of altruism - and then cultivate it among individuals and promote cultural change in our societies.
Nowhere is the need to cultivate this recognition clearer than it is in our economic system.
Initially, central bankers were keen to cultivate this romance as a means of meeting their broader policy objectives of growth, employment, stable inflation, and financial stability.
China, for example, has been attempting to use soft power to cultivate a less threatening image - one that it hopes will undermine, and even discourage, the coalitions that have been emerging to counterbalance its rising economic and military might.
So many of these cross into Ecuador to cultivate coca there.
Policy measures that cultivate traditional role patterns should be abolished.
The biggest impediment to such an education are the mass media, with its tendency to cultivate superficiality and amusement.
Yet Kim Jong-il's two trips to China illustrate his interest in China's reforms and his desire to cultivate China's support.
Can Europe, Latin America, and the US go it alone, cultivate market forces and the free flow of goods and capital with Asia in a tailspin incited by a Japanese collapse?
I say this as someone who created significant capital and, having done so, changed her occupation in order to cultivate morality in politics.
We must also build the infrastructure and cultivate the relationships needed to share disease maps with basic researchers, practicing doctors, drug developers, and even the public at large.
The best response to intolerant extremism is to cultivate an open and pluralistic society that treats all those who live within its borders as full citizens.
In short, leaders must cultivate a reputation for being dependable and sincere - a lesson that Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly never took on board.
On his home front, he needs to cultivate, at the lowest possible price, an image as a champion of the Palestinian cause.
In this crowded power play, only Japan is left out, choosing for the most part to remain aloof and cultivate its relations with the US.
These resources feed armed insurgents, criminal bands and, increasingly, provide the lifeblood for many small peasants, who cultivate some 130 thousand hectares of coca plants.
In this crowded power play, only Japan is left out, choosing for the most part to remain aloof and cultivate its relations with the US, which is now to supply anti-missile technology to counter the North Korean threat.
In its first decades, communist China built its military strength and simultaneously used the soft power of Maoist revolutionary doctrine and Third World solidarity to cultivate allies abroad.

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