cultivation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cultivation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

cultivation (countable and uncountable, plural cultivations)

1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture

   The heavy cultivation of the hillside led to soil erosion.

2. The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture

   These fields are in cultivation.

3. Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)

   His steadfast cultivation of their relationship finally bore fruit.

4. Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition

   She is a woman of great cultivation.

Synonyms

• (art or act of cultivating): tillage
• (advancement or refinement in condition): refinement, culture; education

Related terms

• cultivar
• cultivate, cultivator

Translations

art or act of cultivating

• Arabic: تَهْذِيب m (tahḏīb)
• Bulgarian: обработка (bg) (obrabotka), отглеждане (bg) (otgleždane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養殖／养殖 (zh) (yǎngzhí), 养殖 (zh) (yǎngzhí)

• Dutch: teelt (nl) c
• Esperanto: kultivado
• Finnish: viljely (fi)
• French: culture (fr) f
• Galician: cultivo m
• German: Bodenbearbeitung (de) f, Kultivierung f
• Indonesian: kultivasi (id), budidaya
• Irish: saothrú m
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• Italian: coltura (it) f
• Japanese: 栽培 (ja) (さいばい, saibai)
• Korean: 경작 (ko) (gyeongjak)
• Latin: cultūra f
• Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭡𐭠𐭣𐭠𐭭𐭩𐭤 (ābādānīh)
• Persian: کشت (fa) (kešt)
• Portuguese: cultivo (pt) m, cultivação f
• Romanian: cultivare (ro) m, cultură agricolă f, cultivație f
• Russian: культиви́рование (ru) n (kulʹtivírovanije), (of soil) возде́лывание (ru) n (vozdélyvanije), (processing) обрабо́тка (ru) f (obrabótka), (growing) выра́щивание (ru) n (vyráščivanije)
• Santali: ᱚᱵᱚᱫ (ôbôt’) (harvesting)
• Scottish Gaelic: àiteach m
• Spanish: cultivación (es) f, cultivo (es) m
• Telugu: వ్యవసాయము (te) (vyavasāyamu)

state of being cultivated

• Finnish: viljely (fi), viljelys (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

devotion of time or attention to the improvement of

• Finnish: panostaminen (fi)
• German: Kultivierung f
• Hebrew: טיפוח (t'ipuakh) m
• Italian: coltura (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: cultūra f
• Portuguese: cultivo (pt)
• Romanian: cultură (ro) f
• Spanish: cultura (es) f, cultivo (es) m

advancement or refinement in condition

• Finnish: kultivoituneisuus
• German: Bildung (de) f, Kultivierung f
• Italian: coltura (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 수련 (ko) (suryeon)
• Romanian: cultivare (ro) f, instruire (ro) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kyl.ti.va.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

cultivation f (plural cultivations)

1. cultivation

Related terms

• cultivable
• cultiver
• cultivateur