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CULTIVATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing
Example:
cultivated land
Classified under:
Antonym:
uncultivated ((of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Marked by refinement in taste and manners
Example:
polite society
Synonyms:
civilised; civilized; cultivated; cultured; genteel; polite
Classified under:
Similar:
refined ((used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel)
Sense 3
Meaning:
No longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
Example:
cultivated blackberries
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
tame; tamed (brought from wildness into a domesticated state)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb cultivate
Context examples:
He is so gentle, yet so wise; his mind is so cultivated, and when he speaks, although his words are culled with the choicest art, yet they flow with rapidity and unparalleled eloquence.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Cultivated in India and North America, ashwagandha (Withania somnifera Dunal or Indian ginseng) belongs to the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.
(Ashwagandha Root Powder Extract, NCI Thesaurus)
Lychees are cultivated, harvested and consumed in different parts of Bangladesh but lychee-associated outbreaks have been reported only in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts.
(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)
Won in youth to religion, she has cultivated my original qualities thus:—From the minute germ, natural affection, she has developed the overshadowing tree, philanthropy.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I found it fully cultivated; but that which first surprised me was the length of the grass, which, in those grounds that seemed to be kept for hay, was about twenty feet high.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Too long had he cultivated reticence, aloofness, and moroseness.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Anne always contemplated them as some of the happiest creatures of her acquaintance; but still, saved as we all are, by some comfortable feeling of superiority from wishing for the possibility of exchange, she would not have given up her own more elegant and cultivated mind for all their enjoyments; and envied them nothing but that seemingly perfect good understanding and agreement together, that good-humoured mutual affection, of which she had known so little herself with either of her sisters.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
We might not, said Mr. Micawber, looking round the room as if it represented several hundred acres of highly cultivated land, on the first responsibility becoming due, have been successful in our harvest, or we might not have got our harvest in.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Tens of thousands of these have been cultivated for food at some time by some people, but at present, 103 of them produce about 90 per cent of our food worldwide, while three kinds of grain, maize, rice, and wheat, produce about 60 per cent of the total, the Independent reported.
(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
