cultivate in WordNet English dictionary

1. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
   educate  school  train  cultivate  civilize  civilise 
   
2. prepare for crops
   "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
   cultivate  crop  work 
   
3. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
   "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
   domesticate  cultivate  naturalize  naturalise  tame 
   
4. foster the growth of
   cultivate