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cultivated   (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")

The adj cultivated has 3 senses

• cultivated -- ((of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; "cultivated land")


• cultivated -- (no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries")


• civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite -- (marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society")