cultivate

[cul·ti·vate]

To cultivate is to nurture and help grow. Farmers cultivate crops, fundraising professionals cultivate donors, and celebrities cultivate their images.

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

Verb
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"

Verb
prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"

Verb
foster the growth of

Verb
train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"


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

v. t.
To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.

v. t.
To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.

v. t.
To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.

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


Cultivate

Cul"ti*vate (k?l"t?-v?t), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cultivated (-v?`t?d); p.pr. & vb. n. Cultivating (-v?`-t'b5ng).] [LL. cultivatus, p.p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p.p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. Colony.] 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

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

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Usage Examples

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

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Other Usage Examples

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

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