cultivé
French, adjective
cultivé is spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-É (7 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cultivé is a French adjective meaning “cultivated, farmed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of cultiver. Without its accent, cultive is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travaillé pour rendre plus fertile et productif”.
What does cultivé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cultivated, farmed
- 2
cultivated, grown
- 3
cultured; cultivated
verb
- 1
past participle of cultiver
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Travaillé pour rendre plus fertile et productif. 2. Qui a de la culture, de la connaissance.
noun: 1. Homme qui a de la culture, de la connaissance. 2. Arbre provenant de culture.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cultivé
- cultivée feminine
- cultivés masculine plural
- cultivées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cultivé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cultivé in French?
cultivé appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).