domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame
(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; “domesticate oats”; “tame the soil”
cultivate, crop, work
(verb) prepare for crops; “Work the soil”; “cultivate the land”
cultivate
(verb) foster the growth of
educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; “Cultivate your musical taste”; “Train your tastebuds”; “She is well schooled in poetry”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cultivate (third-person singular simple present cultivates, present participle cultivating, simple past and past participle cultivated)
To grow plants, notably crops
To nurture; to foster; to tend.
To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
Source: Wiktionary
Cul"ti*vate (kl"t-vt), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cultivated (-v`td); p.pr. & vb. n. Cultivating (-v`-t*ng).] Etym: [LL. cultivatus, p.p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p.p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. Colony.]
1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth.
3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. Burke.
4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson.
5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
