cultivation

/ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən/

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,208 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: cultivations

Cultivation is the growing of crops, or the developing of a quality. Land under cultivation.

The second sense is why a well-read person is called cultivated. Cultivation of a friendship is deliberate, which is what the word quietly admits.

Definitions of cultivation

1nouncultivationThe growing of crops, or the developing of a quality.B2+
“Half the parish was under cultivation until about 1960.”

cultivation is a growing.

Where it comes from

Medieval Latin cultivare comes from cultus, tilled, from colere, to till or tend.

Middle French
cultivation
Medieval Latin
cultivātus
English, today
cultivation

From Medieval Latin cultivātus, perfect passive participle of cultivō, ion, or Middle French cultivation. by surface analysis, cultivate + -ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cultivation in the wild

The earliest written records of their cultivation dates to 1209, during the Song dynasty in China.
Shiitake
The period of cultivation is usually terminated when the soil shows signs of exhaustion or, more commonly, when the field is overrun by weeds.
Shifting cultivation
Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created successively down the terrain in a pattern that resembles the steps of a staircase.
Terrace (earthworks)
C. pepo pumpkins are among the oldest known domesticated plants, with evidence of their cultivation dating to between 7000 BCE and 5500 BCE in Mesoamerica.
Pumpkin
Fiber corporation Resource Fiber is contracting farmers in the United States for bamboo cultivation.
Bamboo cultivation

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

the cultivātus family

cultivate cultivation

cultivation — used about once every 20,553 pages · #13,208 · point at the bar for the others

← Vocabulary