cultivate vs promote

cultivate and promote both are verbs.

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

As verbs, promote is a hypernym of cultivate; that is, promote is a word with a broader meaning than cultivate:

Other hypernyms of cultivate include advance, boost, encourage, further.

cultivate (verb)	promote (verb)
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment	make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
prepare for crops	change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment	be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
promote the growth of	give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
	contribute to the progress or growth of