cultivate

Other forms of cultivate

past tense

cultivated·

present participle

cultivating·

third person

cultivates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cultivate

What does cultivate mean?

cultivate means "foster the growth of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cultivate?

cultivate has 3 syllables: cul-ti-vate. The stress falls on "cul". In IPA it is /ˈkʌltəˌveɪt/.

What is another word for cultivate?

Close synonyms include crop, work, educate, school, train. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cultivate a common word?

cultivate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cultivate?

12 words rhyme with cultivate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.