(foster the growth of)
(prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land")
(teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry")
(adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil")
((of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; "cultivated land")
(no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries")
(marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society")