Both Uses of
cultivate
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- 'Cultivate good speech, Miss Simpson,' she'd say, 'and you can marry above yourself.'†
*cultivate = develop, grow, or prepare for growing crops
- It would be the same as saying I knew that nothing grew good in the hard-packed clay behind the mill houses, and that mill hands didn't have plows to cultivate the soil deep or money for guano.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(cultivate) enhance growth or developmentin various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.