- cultivate friendship
- foster amity, encourage comradeship
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
cultivate friendship
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cultivate — [v1] develop land for growing breed, crop, dress, farm, fertilize, garden, harvest, labor, manage, mature, plant, plow, prepare, propagate, raise, ripen, seed, tend, till, work; concepts 253,257 Ant. destroy, ignore, neglect cultivate [v2] enrich … New thesaurus
cultivate — ► VERB 1) prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening. 2) raise or grow (plants or crops). 3) grow or maintain (living cells or tissue) in an artificial medium containing nutrients. 4) try to acquire or develop (a quality or skill). 5) try to… … English terms dictionary
friendship — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep, firm, good, great, strong ▪ Their quarrel meant the end of a beautiful friendship. ▪ They formed a close friendship at college … Collocations dictionary
cultivate — [[t]kʌ̱ltɪveɪt[/t]] cultivates, cultivating, cultivated 1) VERB If you cultivate land or crops, you prepare land and grow crops on it. [V n] She also cultivated a small garden of her own. [V ed] ...the few patches of cultivated land. Derived… … English dictionary
friendship — n. 1) to cement, develop, make, strike up a friendship 2) to cherish, cultivate a friendship 3) to promote (international) friendship 4) to break up, destroy a friendship 5) a close, firm, intimate, strong, warm; lifelong; long friendship 6) the… … Combinatory dictionary
cultivate — /kul teuh vayt /, v.t., cultivated, cultivating. 1. to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till. 2. to use a cultivator on. 3. to promote or improve the growth of (a plant, crop, etc.) by labor and attention. 4. to produce by… … Universalium
cultivate — cul•ti•vate [[t]ˈkʌl təˌveɪt[/t]] v. t. vat•ed, vat•ing 1) agr. to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till 2) agr. to use a cultivator on 3) agr. to promote or improve the growth of (a plant or crop) by labor and attention 4) to… … From formal English to slang
cultivate — verb 1) the peasants cultivated the land Syn: till, plow, dig, hoe, farm, work, fertilize, mulch, weed 2) they were encouraged to cultivate basic food crops Syn: grow, raise, rear … Thesaurus of popular words
cultivate */ — UK [ˈkʌltɪveɪt] / US [ˈkʌltɪˌveɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms cultivate : present tense I/you/we/they cultivate he/she/it cultivates present participle cultivating past tense cultivated past participle cultivated 1) to make land suitable for… … English dictionary
cultivate — verb 1 land ADVERB ▪ intensively ▪ The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations. 2 crops ADVERB ▪ widely ▪ successfully … Collocations dictionary
