Definition of "cultivated" []

• Of, relating to, or produced in cultivation: a cultivated plant. (adjective)
• Educated; polished; refined. (adjective)

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• "_Every farmer should post every foot of his lands, cultivated and not cultivated_."
• "In the past decade, Bob Somerby has chronicled and analyzed the lovely media narratives that McCain cultivated in '99."
• "His family considers my fickleness and independence to be a trait cultivated from the divorce and from my mom, as though I am the way I am to spite them."