The meaning of CULTIVATED is refined, educated. How to use cultivated in a sentence.

CULTIVATED definition: prepared and used for raising crops; tilled. See examples of cultivated used in a sentence.

If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.

CULTIVATE meaning: 1. to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop: 2. to try to develop and…. Learn more.

cultivate something to develop an attitude, a way of talking or behaving, etc. She cultivated an air of sophistication. This modern image is actively cultivated by the company.

to seek to foster (friendship, etc.): cultivated an easygoing attitude in dealing with others. to seek the acquaintance or friendship of (a person): began to cultivate the student who sat behind him.

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