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/kˈəltəvˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Cultivate v. t. (past & past part. cultivated; pres. part. cultivating)

To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. "Leisure... to cultivate general literature."

To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. "I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly."

To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. "To cultivate the wild, licentious savage." "The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end."

To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

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Etymology of 'Cultivate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cultivate" Quotes from Famous Books

... world would be incomplete without people, and here, again, he is free to choose. And, since he wants people in his world who will be constant reminders to him of qualities that he himself would cultivate, he selects Ruth and Jephthah's daughter to represent fidelity. When temptation assails him he finds them ready to lead him back and up to the plane of high resolves. To remind him of indomitable courage and ...

— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... hard crust of indifference which society people cultivate to such perfection; it's the assurance which beauty assumes. She has come here most probably in search of ...

— The Village by the River • H. Louisa Bedford

... a member of one of the three more fashionable corps spends far more than these sums, and his habits may be less Spartan. The ridiculous expenditure of some of our mamma-bred undergraduates, who go to college primarily to cultivate social relations, are unknown anywhere in Germany, for a student would make himself unpopularly conspicuous by extravagance. Two to three thousand dollars a year, even at Bonn, as a member of the best corps, would be amply sufficient and is ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... Reynolds began, then paused abruptly. "But intelligence, life, truth, love are characteristics, attributes which anyone may possess and cultivate." ...

— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... Arran here—I cannot undertake to write the name of the locality by the sound—was a common waste and was let by the Earl at two shillings and sixpence per acre to Presbyterian tenants, who came here from the North I believe. Of course they had to reclaim, fence, drain, cultivate for years. They built dwellings and office houses, built their lives into the place. After they had spent the toil of years on improvement, their rents were raised to seven and sixpence per acre, five shillings at one rise; then it was raised to ten shillings; the next rise was ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

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