transcription, транскрипция: [ kʌltɪveɪt ]
( cultivates, cultivating, cultivated)
1.
If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it.
She also cultivated a small garden of her own.
...the few patches of cultivated land.
VERB : V n , V-ed
• cul‧ti‧va‧tion
...the cultivation of fruits and vegetables...
Farmers with many acres under cultivation profited.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp , prep N
2.
If you cultivate an attitude, image, or skill, you try hard to develop it and make it stronger or better.
Cultivating a positive mental attitude towards yourself can reap tremendous benefits.
VERB : V n
• cul‧ti‧va‧tion
...the cultivation of a positive approach to life and health.
N-UNCOUNT : usu N of n
3.
If you cultivate someone or cultivate a friendship with them, you try hard to develop a friendship with them.
Howe carefully cultivated Daniel C. Roper, the Assistant Postmaster General...
Estonia has done much to cultivate the friendship of western European countries.
VERB : V n , V n