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# cultivated

«cultivated» in Mova's school dictionary: **Cultivated land has been dug, planted and looked after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (cultivated, more cultivated); verb form (past of «cultivate»: cultivated)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cultivated land has been dug, planted and looked after for growing crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#m1)

2) A cultivated plant has been grown by people on purpose, not wild: «cultivated strawberries». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#m2)

3) A cultivated person is well educated, polite and knows about art, music and books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#m3)

4) As a verb form, «cultivated» means grew or developed: «She cultivated roses»; «He cultivated a friendship». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, cultivated land is farmland; the first farmers cultivated wheat and barley. In history, people moved from hunting and gathering to cultivating crops. In stories, a cultivated character speaks politely and enjoys culture. Phrases: «cultivated land», «cultivated crops», «cultivated manners».

### examples

- The farmers cultivated rice in the wet fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x1)
- Wild strawberries are smaller than cultivated ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x2)
- The cultivated fields stretched for miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x3)
- Long ago, people first cultivated wheat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x4)
- Her aunt is a cultivated woman who loves opera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x5)
- He cultivated a good friendship with his neighbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x6)
- Jeppe Jans cultivated his fields in summer, and in the winter he made wooden shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/#x7)

### note

Past form of «cultivate»: cultivate, cultivates, cultivated, cultivating. Opposite of a cultivated plant is a wild one. Related: cultivation (the act of growing crops).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cultivated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.