Agriculture

//ˈeɪɡɹɪˌkʌlt͡ʃɚ// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock. countable, uncountable

    "Meronyms: tillage, cropping"

  2. 2
    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock wordnet
  3. 3
    a large-scale farming enterprise wordnet
  4. 4
    the class of people engaged in growing food wordnet
  5. 5
    the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 wordnet

Synonyms

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farmingfarminghusbandryagribusinessagribusinessagriculture department

Example

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"Biotechnology will bring about a revolution in agriculture."

Etymology

From Middle English agriculture, partly from Middle French agriculture and partly from its etymon Latin agricultūra, from ager (“field”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.

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intensive agricultureprecision agriculturetraditional agricultureclimate change

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