Cultivate

Verb

 * 1) To grow plants, notably crops
 * Farmers should cultivate their crops to get a good harvest.
 * 1) To nurture; tend
 * They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
 * 1) To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

Adverbs for Cultivate
diligently; extensively; sedulously; passionately; intensively; freely; generously; assiduously; fastidiously; systematically; intellectually; profitably; continuously.

Synonyms for Cultivate
develop, tend, train, educate, farm, work, grow, raise, civilize, refine, pursue, foster.

Antonyms for Cultivate
deteriorate, neglect, depress.

Derived terms

 * cultivable
 * cultivar
 * cultivated


 * cultivation
 * cultivator
 * uncultivated

Thesaurus
advance, ameliorate, apprentice, approach, backset, beautify, better, break, break in, break the ice, breed, bring up, brown-nose, butter up, care for, carve, cherish, chisel, coddle, condition, convert, cosset, court, courteous, cradle, crop, cultivated, culture, cultured, cut, delve, develop, dig, discipline, distingue, dress, drill, dry-nurse, educate, elaborate, embellish, encourage, evolve, excite, exercise, extract, fallow, farm, feed, fertilize, fetch up, finish, fit, fondle, force, form, foster, further, groom, grow, harrow, harvest, hoe, house-train, housebreak, improve, instruct, labor, lavish care on, lick into shape, list, machine, make advances, make sensitive, make up to, manage, mature, mill, mine, mother, mulch, nourish, nurse, nurture, pamper, pay addresses to, pay court to, perfect, play up to, plow, polish, polished, polite, practice, prepare, process, produce, promote, propagate, prune, pump, put in tune, put to school, quicken, raise, rake, ready, rear, refine, refined, rehearse, ripen, run after, season, send to school, sensibilize, sensitize, sharpen, shine up to, smelt, spade, spoon-feed, stimulate, stir, suck up to, suckle, sustain, take in hand, teach, tend, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, train, urbane, weed, weed out, well-bred, wet-nurse, whet, woo, work, work on

Etymology
From cultivatus:, perfect passive participle of cultivo:, from cultivus:, from  cultus:, perfect passive participle of colo:, which comes from earlier *undefined:, from. Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω: and Sanskrit चरति:. The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin inquilinus: and anculus:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отглеждам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (gēngzhòng)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: גידל
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 栽培する(さいばいする, saibaisuru)
 * Kurdish: کشتوکاڵ کردن
 * Portuguese: cultivar
 * Spanish: cultivar


 * Bulgarian: подхранвам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (péiyù)
 * Dutch: cultiveren, verzorgen
 * Finnish:


 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: טיפח
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 養う(やしなう, yashinau)


 * Bulgarian: обработвам, култивирам
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: muokata, kyntää (to plough), äestää (to harrow)


 * German:
 * Hebrew: עיבד
 * Italian:


 * : cultiver


 * : cultivar
 * : cultivar
 * : odla
 * : సాగు చేయు (saagu chaeyu)