Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or produced in cultivation: a cultivated plant.
- adj. Educated; polished; refined.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Produced by or subjected to cultivation; specifically, cultured; refined; educated.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of cultivate.
- adj. of a person cultured, refined, educated
- adj. of a plant grown by cultivation (not wild)
- adj. of land farmed
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners.
- adj. used for raising crops; -- of land or soil.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
- adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners
- adj. (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing
Examples
“_Every farmer should post every foot of his lands, cultivated and not cultivated_.”
“In the past decade, Bob Somerby has chronicled and analyzed the lovely media narratives that McCain cultivated in '99.”
“His family considers my fickleness and independence to be a trait cultivated from the divorce and from my mom, as though I am the way I am to spite them.”
“Traveling through this rocky, hardscrabble land, one wonders how the inhabitants have sustained themselves for thousands of years and marvels at the fact that this part of Mexico is the place where corn was first cultivated from a wild grain that grew in the valleys between steep, cactus-strewn mountainsides.”
“Lechuga: lettuce (Lactuca sativa) All lettuce varieties have been cultivated from the original wild varieties found in North America, including Mexico, as well as in Northern Europe and North Africa.”
“With their miles of piping, tubing, wiring and several hundred electric motors and pressure and temperature switches and control valves, they form a package that for temperament would make Maria Callas look like a study in cultivated calm.”
“In the same way, those human bacilli which had become avirulent to cattle through long-continued culture in the laboratory can act again with considerable virulence in cattle if they are first used to infect goats and then, after the death of the animals, are cultivated from the carcases.”
“A final struggle, and we came out on a plain cultivated and wooded – but no church was to be seen.”
“But she knows now, since she has studied with her pupil in college the problems of composition, under the wise advice of Mr. Charles T. Copeland, that the style of every writer and indeed, of every human being, illiterate or cultivated, is a composite reminiscence of all that he has read and heard.”
“Happily for us, the wild strawberries rather increase than diminish in cultivated lands; they are even more common among the foreign grasses of the meadows than within the woods.”
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