cultivate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cul·ti·vate [cultivate cultivates cultivated cultivating] BrE [ˈkʌltɪveɪt] NAmE [ˈkʌltɪveɪt] verb (formal)
1. ~ sth to prepare and use land for growing plants or crops
•The land around here has never been cultivated.
2. ~ sth to grow plants or crops
Syn: ↑grow
•The people cultivate mainly rice and beans.
3. ~ sb/sth (sometimes disapproving)to try to get sb's friendship or support
•He purposely tried to cultivate good relations with the press.
•It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people.
4. ~ sth to develop an attitude, a way of talking or behaving, etc
•She cultivated an air of sophistication.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin cultivat- ‘prepared for crops’, from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’.

Example Bank:
•Olives have been cultivated successfully in southern Australia.
•The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations.
•This modern image is actively cultivated by the company.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  domesticate, naturalize, naturalise, tame, educate, school, train, civilize, civilise, crop, work