0 to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
1 to try to develop and improve something:
She has cultivated an image as a tough negotiator.
The new prime minister is cultivating relationships with East Asian countries.
2 to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
4 to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop:
Corn, or maize, is indigenous to Mexico and has been cultivated there for some 6,000 years.
6 if you cultivate a relationship, you make a special effort to develop it, because you think it might be useful to you:
I have noted that a strong party is one in which rank-and-file members are more concerned with collective reputations rather than cultivating personal reputations.
The land was cultivated, and the country became prosperous.
The amount, if any, and type of fertilizer used depended on the type of crops and trees cultivated.
Problems associated with the destruction of cultivated crops by herdsmen accessing grazing fields are bound to intensity.
In the case of lands cultivated with other crops, many transferred the lands above the ceiling limits to their relatives.
Once developed, the alien idea proved a potent motif for fictional explorations of the singularity or insignificance of humanity cultivated by the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
By 1961 he had rid himself of his intellectual, bespectacled look, cultivating instead a more friendly look in order to find a wider '^ ' audience.
Crystal himself has cultivated, and indeed par tly created, in his writings over the past three decades.
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