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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cultivated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultivated field (=one with crops growing on it)
▪ The valley is an area of lush greenery and cultivated fields.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
field
▪ Its three walls were built out of stones cleared from the surrounding cultivated fields.
land
▪ A variation was to drive cattle on to cultivated land, and then have damages assessed at the full value of the animals.
▪ Some 25 percent of the cultivated land is being used in a way that is not sustainable.
▪ Margins of fresh and coastal water, marshes and cultivated land.
▪ The area of cultivated land in Great Britain also dropped by 9 percent.
▪ They were interpreted as an attempt to create a wider market in cultivated land.
▪ This community is cultivated land and grasses will probably have been sown.
▪ But neglected and uncontrolled the same earth very soon destroys cultivated land and human habitat with impenetrable overgrowth.
▪ A large part of the cultivated land is used to grow export crops.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cultivated pearls
▪ Los Angeles is seen as less cultivated than San Francisco.
▪ You can use cultivated mushrooms, but a few wild ones add a better taste.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A patch of undergrowth, preferably under a tree, is cultivated and preserved for the snake.
▪ All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.
▪ Although the Lis live surrounded by neatly cultivated wheat-fields, they are no longer farmers.
▪ Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour.
▪ The sermons were livelier, for the resident minister Carter was a cultivated man.
▪ Whereas rumour led him to believe that Robert Beaumont was a cultivated man, likely to appreciate music.
▪ With the new set-aside agricultural policies, there is a possibility that cultivated parks can be put back to pasture.
▪ With the range of cultivated varieties now available you could be picking blackberries from August to November.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cultivated

cultivated \cultivated\ adj.

  1. marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.

    Syn: civilized, cultured, genteel, polite.

  2. used for raising crops; -- of land or soil.

Wiktionary
cultivated
  1. 1 (context of a person English) cultured, refined, educated 2 (context of a plant English) grown by cultivation (not wild) 3 (context of land English) farmed v

  2. (en-past of: cultivate)

WordNet
cultivated
  1. adj. (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; "cultivated land" [ant: uncultivated]

  2. no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries"

  3. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: civilized, civilised, cultured, genteel, polite]

Usage examples of "cultivated".

In little time he cultivated an amazing range of friends among the press and in intellectual and financial circles, a number of whom were Jews who, Adams later said, were among the most liberal and accommodating of all.

Russian society was aesthetically one of the most cultivated and experienced in Europe.

We knew, however, that she disdained the squatters on the Woorara and the Ubi, though she did not mind breaking their hearts, and that she also was infected with the Anglomania, and would never marry any one but a travelled and cultivated Englishman.

If mathematics had to be cultivated through experiments on living animals, it would never have succeeded in unfolding the magnificent mysteries of the universe.

The ensuing war destroyed the wormhole through which all arrived, as well as technological civilization, and in the centuries since the Teotl have cultivated Azteca bloodlust and prowess.

They were each almost full men, and one of them, Arpiar Pogossian, with his blocky, cultivated muscles, was almost as large as Bardo the Just, who was the largest man Danlo had ever known.

For some distance from Beauvais, from Senlis, from Soissons, from Laon, they had caused the fields to lie fallow, and here and there shrubs and underwood were springing up over land once cultivated.

There were always people swimming off the new quay or splashing about in coracles and small boats, and men working at the fish traps and the shoals at the mouth of the shallow Breas where razorshell mussels were cultivated, and divers hunting for urchins and abalone amongst the holdfasts of stands of giant kelp whose long blades formed vast brown slicks on the surface of the river.

Bred to patience - a barmaid since age thirteen - she had cultivated and perfected a vast cowlike calm which served her now in good stead among the drunkenness, sex for sale and general fatuousness of the bierhalle.

He would have deniability, and a long list of Lucky haters to draw upon that he had cultivated for years.

Between the cultivated land and the mountains there is no hilliness -the mountains make a dramatic barrier beyond which it is easy to believe that a place such as the Scholomance, where Count Dracula learned his dark wisdom, exists - indeed, from which the Four Horsemen might come riding down to announce the Apocalypse.

When he reached the end of the cultivated fields, he pulled off his boots, meant mostly for protection against the stones and brambles of the dryland, fastened them to his belt, and substituted a pair of woven rush sandals he kept with Nera.

He could see the great auditorium, filled with cultivated people: men with Emersonian profiles, ladies whispering behind their fluttering programmes.

On the other hand, the most beautiful species, both as regards foliage and flowers, can be just as easily cultivated.

Ripening grainfields stretched ahead, doubtless cultivated by the villagers.