Cultivation
[kʌltɪ'veɪʃn] or ['kʌltə'veʃən]
Definition
(noun.) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale).
(noun.) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale).
(noun.) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners; 'her cultivation was remarkable'.
(noun.) the process of fostering the growth of something; 'the cultivation of bees for honey'.
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
(n.) Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Tillage, agriculture, husbandry.[2]. Improvement, refinement, culture.
Inputed by Diego
Examples
- Some leases prescribe to the tenant a certain mode of cultivation, and a certain succession of crops, during the whole continuance of the lease. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- They had _no cultivation_ of grain or vegetables of any sort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Helstone was at some distance from any neighbours of their own standard of cultivation. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But the populousness of every country must be in proportion to the degree of its improvement and cultivation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Moore, who was continuing his searches in that country, was instructed to arrange for the cultivation and shipment of regular supplies of this particular species. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here the natives work under pleasant climatic conditions and the trees under cultivation grow better and yield better than in the forest. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They could not be the daughters of the elderly person at the table; for she looked like a rustic, and they were all delicacy and cultivation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The very cultivation surrounding it had disappeared. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They themselves care only for making money, and are as indifferent as the pauper to the cultivation of virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- His first cultivation before that came about must have been rather in the form of garden patches near the house buildings than of fields. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For a time cultivation became impossible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The prohibition of exportation limits the improvement and cultivation of the country to what the supply of its own inhabitants require. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This ruin was, however, by no means universal; there is at least as much mention of crowded cities and villages and busy cultivations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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