Cultivate
verb
To prepare and use land for growing plants.
The farmer cultivates his field to grow vegetables.
Often appears as...
- cultivate land
- cultivate field
verb
To improve or develop a skill or quality.
She cultivated a love for music from her childhood.
Often appears as...
- cultivate skills
- cultivate virtue
verb
To try to become friendly with someone because they can help you.
He cultivates influential people to support his political aspirations.
Often appears as...
- cultivate relations
- cultivate connections
verb
To prepare and use land for growing plants.
The farmer cultivates his field to grow vegetables.
Often appears as...
- cultivate land
- cultivate field
verb
To improve or develop a skill or quality.
She cultivated a love for music from her childhood.
Often appears as...
- cultivate skills
- cultivate virtue
verb
To try to become friendly with someone because they can help you.
He cultivates influential people to support his political aspirations.
Often appears as...
- cultivate relations
- cultivate connections
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Often used in farming contexts to describe preparing and working on the land.
Local farmers cultivate the land to ensure a bountiful harvest.
Pro Tip 2/3Careful Improvement
Implies a careful, attentive approach to enhancing the land's ability to grow crops.
Farmers must cultivate their fields meticulously to avoid soil depletion.
Pro Tip 3/3Continuous Process
Cultivating isn't a one-time action; it's an ongoing process throughout the growing season.
She cultivates her garden throughout the summer for fresh vegetables.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Often used in farming contexts to describe preparing and working on the land.
Local farmers cultivate the land to ensure a bountiful harvest.
Pro Tip 2/3Careful Improvement
Implies a careful, attentive approach to enhancing the land's ability to grow crops.
Farmers must cultivate their fields meticulously to avoid soil depletion.
Pro Tip 3/3Continuous Process
Cultivating isn't a one-time action; it's an ongoing process throughout the growing season.
She cultivates her garden throughout the summer for fresh vegetables.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Often used in farming contexts to describe preparing and working on the land.
Local farmers cultivate the land to ensure a bountiful harvest.
Pro Tip 2/3Careful Improvement
Implies a careful, attentive approach to enhancing the land's ability to grow crops.
Farmers must cultivate their fields meticulously to avoid soil depletion.
Pro Tip 3/3Continuous Process
Cultivating isn't a one-time action; it's an ongoing process throughout the growing season.
She cultivates her garden throughout the summer for fresh vegetables.
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A Forest Garden With 500...
accumulators plants to attract beneficial insects to eat all your pests forest gardens are very beautiful places to be in because although they're managed the management is light so they have this very naturalistic feel to them and it is more like being out in nature than being in a cultivated garden it can seem a bit overwhelming there's so many
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Why Do Gorillas Have...
actually be quite gentle particularly the small or a small youngster or something do gorillas eat bananas so i guess the short answer is yes they do out in the wild they're more likely to eat banana so they're but the bananas they have there are less high in sugars they're less cultivated for our palette like the ones
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Is Your Perfume Made...
which produces more oil in less time and more importantly, requires less wood. In Assam, they've also begun to introduce the fungus to cultivated tree populations. By guaranteeing an infection, they fell fewer trees and can expand their production to new areas.
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3 tips to boost your...
It isn't possible to completely untangle these three factors, but the personal choices we make certainly play a major role in confidence development. So, by keeping in mind a few practical tips, we do actually have the power to cultivate our own confidence.
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The Egyptian Book of the...
who gives him final approval to enter the afterlife. In the endless and lush field of reeds, Ani meets his deceased parents. Here, there is no sadness, pain, or anger, but there is work to be done. Like everyone else, Ani must cultivate a plot of land,
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The philosophy of...
Nor does Stoicism encourage passivity. The idea is that only people who have cultivated virtue and self-control in themselves can bring positive change in others. One of the most famous Stoic writers was also one of Rome's greatest emperors.
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How I climbed a...
But staying calm and performing at your best when you know that any mistake could mean death requires a certain kind of mindset. That's not supposed to be funny, but if it is, it is. I worked to cultivate that mindset through visualization,
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The impact of Simón...
dancer a spirited conversationalist a cultivated man of the world who read widely and spoke many languages his letters and speeches although they were written on the battlefield and on the fly represents some of the greatest
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Who was Confucius? -...
and by education in ritual, literature, and history. A person cultivated in this way works to help others, guiding them by moral inspiration rather than brute force. To put his philosophy into practice,
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This Crab Can't Swim,...
equivalent of ten house bricks being big has allowed them to cultivate some rare talents true to their name they can crack a
Video examples
A Forest Garden With 500...
accumulators plants to attract beneficial insects to eat all your pests forest gardens are very beautiful places to be in because although they're managed the management is light so they have this very naturalistic feel to them and it is more like being out in nature than being in a cultivated garden it can seem a bit overwhelming there's so many
Video examples
Why Do Gorillas Have...
actually be quite gentle particularly the small or a small youngster or something do gorillas eat bananas so i guess the short answer is yes they do out in the wild they're more likely to eat banana so they're but the bananas they have there are less high in sugars they're less cultivated for our palette like the ones
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
which produces more oil in less time and more importantly, requires less wood. In Assam, they've also begun to introduce the fungus to cultivated tree populations. By guaranteeing an infection, they fell fewer trees and can expand their production to new areas.
Video examples
3 tips to boost your...
It isn't possible to completely untangle these three factors, but the personal choices we make certainly play a major role in confidence development. So, by keeping in mind a few practical tips, we do actually have the power to cultivate our own confidence.
Video examples
The Egyptian Book of the...
who gives him final approval to enter the afterlife. In the endless and lush field of reeds, Ani meets his deceased parents. Here, there is no sadness, pain, or anger, but there is work to be done. Like everyone else, Ani must cultivate a plot of land,
Video examples
The philosophy of...
Nor does Stoicism encourage passivity. The idea is that only people who have cultivated virtue and self-control in themselves can bring positive change in others. One of the most famous Stoic writers was also one of Rome's greatest emperors.
Video examples
How I climbed a...
But staying calm and performing at your best when you know that any mistake could mean death requires a certain kind of mindset. That's not supposed to be funny, but if it is, it is. I worked to cultivate that mindset through visualization,
Video examples
The impact of Simón...
dancer a spirited conversationalist a cultivated man of the world who read widely and spoke many languages his letters and speeches although they were written on the battlefield and on the fly represents some of the greatest
Video examples
Who was Confucius? -...
and by education in ritual, literature, and history. A person cultivated in this way works to help others, guiding them by moral inspiration rather than brute force. To put his philosophy into practice,
Video examples
This Crab Can't Swim,...
equivalent of ten house bricks being big has allowed them to cultivate some rare talents true to their name they can crack a
Example 1 of 10
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German Poet
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
American President
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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Barack Obama
American President
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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Napoleon Hill
American Author
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
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Mae West
American Actress
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German Poet
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Quote examples
Franklin D. Roosevelt
American President
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
Quote examples
James Baldwin
American Novelist
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
Quote examples
Napoleon Hill
American Author
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Quote examples
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Quote examples
Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Quote examples
Mae West
American Actress
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Quote examples
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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