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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cultivate/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
▶verb
- 1 prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.
■ grow (plants), especially on a large scale for commercial purposes.
- 2 Biology grow or maintain (living cells or tissue) in culture.
- 3 try to acquire or develop (a quality or skill).
■ try to win the friendship or favour of.
- 4 (as adj. cultivated) refined and well educated.
– derivatives
cultivable adjective,
cultivatable adjective,
cultivator noun.
cultivable adjective,
cultivatable adjective,
cultivator noun.
– origin C17: from med. L. cultivat-, cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’.
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