To grow, harvest, dry, and cure agricultural products.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
cultivate (verb)transitive verb
1.
to prepare or prepare and use for the raising of crops , also to loosen or break up the soil about (growing plants)
2.
a) to foster the growth of - cultivate vegetables
b) - culture
c) to improve by labor, care, or study - refine cultivate the mind
3.
- further encourage cultivate the arts
4.
to seek the society of make friends with
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
cultivate (verb)1.
to come to have gradually
SYNONYMS:
acquire, cultivate, formRELATED WORDS:
absorb, adopt, embrace, take in, take on; gain, get, obtain; achieve, attain, reach; foster, nourish, nurture, promoteNEAR ANTONYMS:
abandon, desert, forsake; cast, discard, ditch, dump, fling (off away), jettison, junk, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough ( sluff), throw away, throw out, unload2.
to help the growth or development of
SYNONYMS:
advance, cultivate, encourage, forward, further, incubate, nourish, nurse, nurture, promoteRELATED WORDS:
advocate, back, champion, endorse ( indorse), support, uphold; endow, finance, fund, patronize, stake, subsidize, underwrite; abet, aid, assist; advertise, boost, plug, publicize, tout; agitate (for), campaign (for), work (for)NEAR ANTONYMS:
ban, bar, enjoin, forbid, interdict, outlaw, prevent, prohibit, proscribe; battle, combat, contend (with), counter, fight, oppose; repress, snuff (out), squash, squelch, stifle, subdue, suppress; arrest, check, halt, retard; encumber, fetter, hobble, impede, interfere (with), manacle, obstruct, shackle3.
to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care
SYNONYMS:
crop, cultivate, culture, dress, promote, raise, rear, tendRELATED WORDS:
breed, produce, propagate; plant, sow; gather, glean, harvest, reap; germinate, quicken, ripen, root, sproutNEAR ANTONYMS:
kill; dig, extirpate, pick, pluck, pull (up), uproot; cut, hay, mow4.
to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on
SYNONYMS:
cultivate, tend, tillRELATED WORDS:
crop, plant; harvest, reap; harrow, hoe; sharecropCultivate (Wikipedia)
Cultivation may refer to:
- The state of having or expressing a good education (bildung), refinement, culture, or high culture
- Gardening
- The controlled growing of organisms by humans
- Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
- Crop farming, the mass-scale cultivation of (usually a specific single species of) plants as staple food or industrial crop
- Horticulture, the cultivation of non-staple plants such as vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and grass
- Fungiculture, the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi for producing food, medicine and other commercially valued products
- Animal husbandry, the breeding of domesticated mammals (livestock and working animals) and birds (poultry), and occasionally amphibians (e.g., bullfrogs) and reptiles (e.g. snakes, softshell turtles and crocodilians)
- Insect farming, the breeding of economic insects such as honeybees, silkworms and cochineals
- Aquaculture, the controlled breeding or "farming" of aquatic animals, plants and algae
- Pisciculture, the breeding of fish
- Algaculture, the breeding of algae, particularly seaweeds
- Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
- Tillage, the cultivation of fertile soil (etymological meaning of cultivation)
- Land development
- Colonization, socio-political cultivation of land
- Colonialism, the idea of socio-political cultivation of land and people
- Civilizing mission, cultivation of people in the sense of cultural assimilation or forced assimilation
- Developmentalism
- Microbiological culture, a method of multiplying microbial organisms
- Cultivation theory, George Gerbner's model of media effects
- A common translation for several terms originating in Chinese and broader East Asian philosophy and literature, such as Qigong and Kung Fu practices (including martial arts), Self-cultivation, and certain supernatural tropes often featured in Xianxia fiction.
- As a proper noun
- Cultivation, a video game by Jason Rohrer
- Cultivation, a 2006 album by Gram Rabbit
- Cultivate (store)
Cultivate (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin cultivātus, perfect passive participle of cultivō (“till, cultivate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate”), which comes from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō
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