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Synonyms:
growing, farming, nurturing, tending, propagating
Cultivation is the process of growing cannabis plants. This can be done through either indoor or outdoor farming and requires in-depth knowledge of proper soil, growth temperatures, light, water, pest management, and more.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
cultivation (noun)1.
- culture refinement
2.
the act or art of or tilling - cultivating
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cultivation (noun)a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts
SYNONYMS:
accomplishment, civilization, couth, cultivation, polish, refinementRELATED WORDS:
education, erudition, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learning, literacy, scholarship; cosmopolitanism, sophistication, urbanity; breeding, genteelness, gentility, manners; class, elegance, grace, taste; civility, courteousness, courtesy, politenessNEAR ANTONYMS:
ignorance, illiteracy; parochialism, provincialism, rusticity, unsophistication; boorishness, churlishness, clownishness, coarseness, crudeness, vulgarityCultivation (Wikipedia)
Cultivation may refer to:
- The state of having or expressing a good education (bildung), refinement, culture, or high culture
- Gardening
- The controlled growing of organisms by humans
- Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
- Crop farming, the mass-scale cultivation of (usually a specific single species of) plants as staple food or industrial crop
- Horticulture, the cultivation of non-staple plants such as vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and grass
- Fungiculture, the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi for producing food, medicine and other commercially valued products
- Animal husbandry, the breeding of domesticated mammals (livestock and working animals) and birds (poultry), and occasionally amphibians (e.g., bullfrogs) and reptiles (e.g. snakes, softshell turtles and crocodilians)
- Insect farming, the breeding of economic insects such as honeybees, silkworms and cochineals
- Aquaculture, the controlled breeding or "farming" of aquatic animals, plants and algae
- Pisciculture, the breeding of fish
- Algaculture, the breeding of algae, particularly seaweeds
- Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
- Tillage, the cultivation of fertile soil (etymological meaning of cultivation)
- Land development
- Colonization, socio-political cultivation of land
- Colonialism, the idea of socio-political cultivation of land and people
- Civilizing mission, cultivation of people in the sense of cultural assimilation or forced assimilation
- Developmentalism
- Microbiological culture, a method of multiplying microbial organisms
- Cultivation theory, George Gerbner's model of media effects
- A common translation for several terms originating in Chinese and broader East Asian philosophy and literature, such as Qigong and Kung Fu practices (including martial arts), Self-cultivation, and certain supernatural tropes often featured in Xianxia fiction.
- As a proper noun
- Cultivation, a video game by Jason Rohrer
- Cultivation, a 2006 album by Gram Rabbit
- Cultivate (store)
Cultivation (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cultivation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
cultivation (countable and uncountable, plural cultivations)
- The art or act of cultivating (improvement of land for or by agriculture), as:
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
- Coordinate terms: no-till, no-tillage
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
