Agriculture is defined as the cultivation of soil for growing crops.
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Cultivation
//ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən//
Synonyms for "cultivation" (167 found)
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gentlenessgeoponicsgood breedinggood tastegracegracefulnessgracilitygraciositygraciousnessgrain farminggroominggrowinggrowthhandicrafthandiworkharrowingharvestinghoeinghousebreakinghusbandry
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58 translations across 28 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kultivasie noun (art or act of cultivating)
Arabic
1 entries- تَهْذِيب noun (art or act of cultivating)
Bengali
2 entries- চাষ noun (art or act of cultivating)
- জেরাত noun (art or act of cultivating)
Bulgarian
2 entries- обработка noun (art or act of cultivating)
- отгле́ждане noun (art or act of cultivating)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 養殖 /养殖 noun (art or act of cultivating)
Dutch
1 entries- teelt noun (art or act of cultivating)
Esperanto
1 entries- kultivado noun (art or act of cultivating)
Finnish
4 entries- kultivoituneisuus noun (advancement or refinement in condition)
- panostaminen noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
- viljely noun (art or act of cultivating)
- viljely noun (state of being cultivated)
French
1 entries- culture noun (art or act of cultivating)
Galician
1 entries- cultivo noun (art or act of cultivating)
German
4 entries- Bildung noun (advancement or refinement in condition)
- Bodenbearbeitung noun (art or act of cultivating)
- Kultivierung noun (art or act of cultivating)
- Kultivierung noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
Hebrew
1 entries- טיפוח noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
Indonesian
2 entries- budidaya noun (art or act of cultivating)
- kultivasi noun (art or act of cultivating)
Irish
1 entries- saothrú noun (art or act of cultivating)
Italian
3 entries- coltura noun (art or act of cultivating)
- coltura noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
- coltura noun (advancement or refinement in condition)
Japanese
1 entries- 栽培 noun (art or act of cultivating)
Korean
2 entries- 경작 noun (art or act of cultivating)
- 수련 noun (advancement or refinement in condition)
Latin
2 entries- cultūra noun (art or act of cultivating)
- cultūra noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
Middle Persian
1 entries- 𐭠𐭡𐭠𐭣𐭠𐭭𐭩𐭤 noun (art or act of cultivating)
Persian
1 entries- کشت noun (art or act of cultivating)
Polish
2 entries- pielęgnowanie noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
- uprawa noun (art or act of cultivating)
Portuguese
3 entries- cultivação noun (art or act of cultivating)
- cultivo noun (art or act of cultivating)
- cultivo noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
Romanian
4 entries- cultivare noun (art or act of cultivating)
- cultivare noun (state of being cultivated)
- cultivare noun (advancement or refinement in condition)
- cultivație noun (art or act of cultivating)
Russian
4 entries- возде́лывание noun (art or act of cultivating)
- выра́щивание noun (art or act of cultivating)
- культиви́рование noun (art or act of cultivating)
- обрабо́тка noun (art or act of cultivating)
Santali
1 entries- ᱚᱵᱚᱫ noun (art or act of cultivating)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- àiteach noun (art or act of cultivating)
Spanish
4 entries- cultivación noun (art or act of cultivating)
- cultivo noun (art or act of cultivating)
- cultivo noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
- cultura noun (devotion of time or attention to the improvement of)
Telugu
1 entries- వ్యవసాయము noun (art or act of cultivating)
Sample sentences
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There is no piety in the world which is not the result of cultivation, and which cannot be increased by the degree of care and attention bestowed upon it.
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Organic cultivation is a method of growing plants (grains, vegetables, fruit, etc.) without using agricultural chemicals.
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As Yan Yuan pointed out, "proper moral cultivation could begin from any point on the moral map, not just the mean position".
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