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Cultivation

Cultivation Meaning & Definition
Cultivation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cultivation?

[n] (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops
[n] socialization through training and education
[n] a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cultivation: culture | finish | polish | refinement

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cultivation: 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

See Also | acculturation | agriculture | apiculture | beekeeping | culture | enculturation | farming | flawlessness | husbandry | ne plus ultra | perfection | production | socialisation | socialization | tilling

Cultivation In Webster's Dictionary

\Cul`ti*va"tion\ (k?l`t?-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. 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.

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