Word Meanings - CULTIVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state
Additional info about word: CULTIVATION
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage. 2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care. 3. The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CULTIVATION)
- Agriculture
- Cultivation
- husbandry
- farming
- tillage
- Civilization
- Amelioration
- culture
- cultivation
- humanization
- refinement
- Refinement
- Clarification
- purification
- filtration
- sublimation
- polish
- elegance
- civilization
- subtilty
- finesse
- sophistry
Related words: (words related to CULTIVATION)
- FINESSE
The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton. - FARMERESS
A woman who farms. - FARMSTEAD
A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - FARMERY
The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. - FARMSTEADING
A farmstead. Black. - FARMING
Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - AMELIORATION
The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill. - CULTURE FEATURES
The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural. - HUSBANDRY
1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all - AGRICULTURE
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming. - POLISHABLE
Capable of being polished. - REFINEMENT
1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt - CULTURED
1. Under culture; cultivated. "Cultured vales." Shenstone. 2. Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other - CULTURE MYTH
A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth. - FARMYARD
The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings. - POLISHEDNESS
The quality of being polished. - FARM
A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials . (more info) 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part - SUBTILTY
1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. 2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke. 3. Cunning; skill; - SELF-CULTURE
Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts. - BABY FARMING
The business of keeping a baby farm. - SILVICULTURE
See SYLVICULTURE - REPOLISH
To polish again. - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - OSTREACULTURE
The artificial cultivation of oysters. - BABY FARM
A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire. - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - DEPOLISHING
The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight. - FLORICULTURE
The cultivation of flowering plants.