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Cultivate

//ˈkʌltɪveɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To grow plants, notably crops.

    "Most farmers in this region cultivate maize."

  2. 2
    adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment wordnet
  3. 3
    To nurture; to foster; to tend. figuratively

    "They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students."

  4. 4
    prepare for crops wordnet
  5. 5
    To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.
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  1. 6
    teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment wordnet
  2. 7
    promote the growth of wordnet

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) and Sanskrit चरति (cárati). The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin in-quil-īnus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).

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