cultivate vs grow

grow vs cultivate

cultivate and grow both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cultivate	No	No	Yes	No
grow	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, grow is a hyponym of cultivate; that is, grow is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cultivate:

cultivate: promote the growth of
grow: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

Other hyponyms of cultivate include farm, produce, raise.

cultivate (verb)	grow (verb)
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment	come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
prepare for crops	become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment	cause to grow or develop
promote the growth of	increase in size by natural process
	pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
	develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
	grow emotionally or mature
	become attached by or as if by the process of growth
	cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
	come into existence; take on form or shape

Difference between cultivate and grow

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