how to pronounce cultivate

/ˈkʌl.tɪ.vɛɪt/

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cultivate is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of cultivate in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… underground water to cultivate the trees …”

meaning of cultivate

Cultivate means to improve or develop by careful attention and effort.

cultivate frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word cultivate occurs in english on average 2.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics cultivate can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that cultivate can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;