word-vault/dist/data/cards/cu/cultivate.json

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{
    "term": "cultivate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "cultivate",
            "heSheIt": "cultivates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "cultivated",
        "pastParticiple": "cultivated",
        "ingForm": "cultivating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to prepare and use land for growing plants or crops",
            "sensetop": "cultivate something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The land around here has never been cultivated."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The land here has been intensively cultivated for generations."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["intensively"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to grow plants or crops",
            "sensetop": "cultivate something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The people cultivate mainly rice and beans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Olives have been cultivated successfully in southern Australia."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "grow",
            "topics": ["Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["widely", "successfully"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to try to get somebody’s friendship or support",
            "sensetop": "cultivate somebody/something",
            "labels": "(sometimes disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He purposely tried to cultivate good relations with the press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["actively", "assiduously", "carefully"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to develop an attitude, a way of talking or behaving, etc.",
            "sensetop": "cultivate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She cultivated an air of sophistication."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This modern image is actively cultivated by the company."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["actively", "assiduously", "carefully"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivate__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪts/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪt/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪts/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "cu/cultivate/cultivating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin cultivat- ‘prepared for crops’, from the verb cultivare, from cultiva (terra) ‘arable (land)’, from colere ‘cultivate, inhabit’."
}