Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or produced in cultivation.
- adjective Educated; polished; refined.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced by or subjected to cultivation; specifically, cultured; refined; educated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective marked by refinement in taste and manners.
- adjective used for raising crops; -- of land or soil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cultivate . - adjective of a person
cultured ,refined ,educated - adjective of a plant
grown bycultivation (not wild) - adjective of land
farmed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
- adjective marked by refinement in taste and manners
- adjective (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing
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Examples
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_Every farmer should post every foot of his lands, cultivated and not cultivated_.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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In the past decade, Bob Somerby has chronicled and analyzed the lovely media narratives that McCain cultivated in '99.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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In the past decade, Bob Somerby has chronicled and analyzed the lovely media narratives that McCain cultivated in '99.
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His family considers my fickleness and independence to be a trait cultivated from the divorce and from my mom, as though I am the way I am to spite them.
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Lechuga: lettuce (Lactuca sativa) All lettuce varieties have been cultivated from the original wild varieties found in North America, including Mexico, as well as in Northern Europe and North Africa.
Mexico's Leafy Green 2005
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Lechuga: lettuce (Lactuca sativa) All lettuce varieties have been cultivated from the original wild varieties found in North America, including Mexico, as well as in Northern Europe and North Africa.
Mexico's Leafy Green 2005
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Traveling through this rocky, hardscrabble land, one wonders how the inhabitants have sustained themselves for thousands of years and marvels at the fact that this part of Mexico is the place where corn was first cultivated from a wild grain that grew in the valleys between steep, cactus-strewn mountainsides.
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Traveling through this rocky, hardscrabble land, one wonders how the inhabitants have sustained themselves for thousands of years and marvels at the fact that this part of Mexico is the place where corn was first cultivated from a wild grain that grew in the valleys between steep, cactus-strewn mountainsides.
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Traveling through this rocky, hardscrabble land, one wonders how the inhabitants have sustained themselves for thousands of years and marvels at the fact that this part of Mexico is the place where corn was first cultivated from a wild grain that grew in the valleys between steep, cactus-strewn mountainsides.
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With their miles of piping, tubing, wiring and several hundred electric motors and pressure and temperature switches and control valves, they form a package that for temperament would make Maria Callas look like a study in cultivated calm.
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