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Cultivated   /kˈəltəvˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Cultivated

adjective
1.
(of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing.  Antonym: uncultivated.
2.
No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use.  "Cultivated blackberries"
3.
Marked by refinement in taste and manners.  Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite.  "Cultured Bostonians" , "Cultured tastes" , "A genteel old lady" , "Polite society"


Cultivate

verb
(past & past part. cultivated; pres. part. cultivating)
1.
Foster the growth of.
2.
Prepare for crops.  Synonyms: crop, work.  "Cultivate the land"
3.
Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.  Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train.  "Train your tastebuds" , "She is well schooled in poetry"
4.
Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment.  Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame.  "Tame the soil"



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"Cultivated" Quotes from Famous Books



... further strip of virgin prairie, besides ploughing, with hired assistance, part of the already cultivated land, before the Indian summer passed. All day pale golden sunlight flooded the whitened grass, which sometimes glittered with frostwork in early morning, while as the nights grew longer, the wild ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... Musical Scrutator, declaring that in no previous work of its kind had so much research been joined with such exalted musical ability, and asserting that the name of Harding would henceforward be known wherever the Arts were cultivated, ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... primitive condition. Not that it had lain waste; on the contrary, as the region of Pontus is still one of the most fertile on the face of the earth, with its fields of grain alternating with forests of wild fruit trees, it was beyond doubt even in the time of Mithradates well cultivated and also comparatively populous. But there were hardly any towns properly so called; the country possessed nothing but strongholds, which served the peasants as places of refuge and the king as treasuries for the custody ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... thick coppice of chestnut and birch. Thus it was impossible for Chauvelin to spy his quarry from afar; nor did he expect to do so this side of the Hopital de la Sante. Once past that point, he would find the road quite open and running almost straight, in the midst of arid and only partially cultivated land. ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy
... as of the religious observances, of ancient Cyprus is derived from such sites, all such indications should be reported at once to the Keeper of Antiquities, and arrangements made for the site to be examined with a view to excavation before it is cultivated further. The sculpture on these sites begins usually in the seventh century B.C.; before that period terra-cotta figures were in use as far back as the ninth or tenth century. Figures of 'Mixed Oriental' style, resembling ...
— How to Observe in Archaeology • Various


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