All 8 Uses of
cultivate
in
The Good Earth
- He put his hoe upon his shoulder and he walked to his plots of land and he cultivated the rows of grain, and he yoked the ox to the plow and he ploughed the western field for garlic and onions.†
Chpt 2
- One day when Wang Lung was hard pressed with the swelling wheat and was cultivating it with his hoe, day after day, until his back throbbed with weariness, her shadow fell across the furrow over which he bent himself, and there she stood, with a hoe across her shoulder.†
Chpt 2
- He came to where Wang Lung was and he stood in silence while Wang Lung hoed a narrow line beside the broad beans he was cultivating.†
Chpt 7 *
- These beans, must, if they are to bear, as you know, be cultivated twice and thrice.†
Chpt 7
- He put his hoe down into the ground with a long even movement and with great care, breaking up the tiniest clod in the soft earth already well cultivated.†
Chpt 7
- The fields, although Wang Lung cultivated them desperately, dried and cracked, and the young wheat stalks, which had sprung up courageously with the coming of spring and had prepared their heads for the grain, when they found nothing coming from the soil or the sky for them, ceased their growing and stood motionless at first under the sun and at last dwindled and yellowed into a barren harvest.†
Chpt 8
- "On such a day as this," he said aloud to his father, "the fields should be turned and the wheat cultivated."†
Chpt 13
- With this ox he could plough his fields and cultivate them and with this ox tied to his mill he could grind the grain.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(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