Cultivation
Contents
English
Noun
Cultivation (countable and uncountable; plural Cultivations)- The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
Adjectives for Cultivation
proper; intensive; fictional; continuous; hot-house; forced;
Synonyms for Cultivation
- (art or act of cultivating): tillage
- (advancement or refinement in condition): refinement, culture; education
Related terms
cultivar; cultivate; cultivator
Thesaurus
acculturation, acquired taste, agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, appreciation of excellence, apprenticeship, architecture, assembly, basic training, breaking, breeding, building, casting, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, composition, conditioning, construction, contour farming, contour plowing, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivated taste, cultivating, culture, daintiness, delicacy, development, devising, dirt farming, discipline, discrimination, dressing, drill, drilling, dry farming, dryland farming, education, elaboration, elegance, enculturation, enlightenment, erection, excellence, exercise, extraction, fabrication, fallowing, farm economy, farming, fashioning, fastidiousness, fetching-up, finesse, formation, forming, formulation, fostering, framing, fruit farming, furrowing, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, geoponics, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grain farming, grooming, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harrowing, harvesting, hoeing, housebreaking, husbandry, hydroponics, improvement, in-service training, intensive farming, ladylikeness, listing, machining, making, manual training, manufacture, manufacturing, military training, milling, mining, mixed farming, molding, niceness, nicety, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, plowing, polish, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pruning, quality, raising, readying, rearing, refinement, refining, rehearsal, rural economy, shaping, sharecropping, sloyd, smelting, socialization, sophistication, strip farming, subsistence farming, subtlety, tank farming, taste, tastefulness, thinning, thremmatology, tillage, tilling, tilth, training, truck farming, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training, weeding, working, workmanship
Etymology
From cultivate
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
