About The Word Agriculture

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Agriculture

Agriculture Meaning & Definition
Agriculture Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Agriculture?

[n] the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
[n] a large-scale farming enterprise
[n] the class of people engaged in growing food
[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Agriculture: agribusiness | Agriculture Department | Department of Agriculture | farming | husbandry

Related Terms | Find terms related to Agriculture: Ceres | Cora | corn god | Demeter | Dionysos | Dionysus | farming | fertility god | Flora | forest god | Frey | Gaea | Gaia | husbandry | Kore | Persephassa | Persephone | Pomona | Proserpina | Proserpine | Triptolemos | Triptolemus | vegetation spirit

See Also | animal husbandry | aquiculture | arboriculture | business | business enterprise | class | commercial enterprise | cultivation | dairy farming | dairying | executive department | gardening | harvest | harvest time | horticulture | hydroponics | mixed farming | planting | ranching | social class | socio-economic class | strip cropping | subsistence farming | tank farming | tilling | tree farming | truck farming

Agriculture In Webster's Dictionary

\Ag"ri*cul`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See {Acre} and {Culture}.] The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

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