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cultivate   (TTS Sound)

The verb cultivate has 4 senses

• cultivate -- (foster the growth of)


• cultivate, crop, work -- (prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land")


• educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise -- (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry")


• domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame -- (adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil")