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Synonyms for agriculture
ˈæg rɪˌkʌl tʃəragri·cul·ture
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
agriculture
Agriculture is the generic term, including at once the science, the art, and the process of supplying human wants by raising the products of the soil, and by the associated industries; farming is the practise of agriculture as a business; there may be theoretical agriculture, but not theoretical farming; we speak of the science of agriculture, the business of farming; scientific agriculture may be wholly in books; scientific farming is practised upon the land; we say an agricultural college rather than a college of farming. Farming refers to the cultivation of considerable portions of land, and the raising of the coarser crops; gardening is the close cultivation of a small area for small fruits, flowers, vegetables, etc., and while it may be done upon a farm is yet a distinct industry. Gardening in general, kitchen-gardening, the cultivation of vegetables, etc., for the household, market-gardening, the raising of the same for sale, floriculture, the culture of flowers, and horticulture, the culture of fruits, flowers, or vegetables, are all departments of agriculture, but not strictly nor ordinarily of farming; farming is itself one department of agriculture. Husbandry is a general word for any form of practical agriculture, but is now chiefly poetical. Tillage refers directly to the work bestowed upon the land, as plowing, manuring, etc.; cultivation refers especially to the processes that bring forward the crop; we speak of the tillage of the soil, the cultivation of corn; we also speak of land as in a state of cultivation, under cultivation, etc. Culture is now applied to the careful development of any product to a state of perfection, especially by care through successive generations; the choice varieties of the strawberry have been produced by wise and patient culture; a good crop in any year is the result of good cultivation.
Synonyms:
cultivation, culture, farming, floriculture, gardening, horticulture, husbandry, kitchen-gardening, market-gardening, tillage
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
agriculture
Synonyms:
cultivation, husbandry, farming, tillageAntonyms:
sterility, unproductiveness, waste, fallowness, inculture
Princeton's WordNet
agribusiness, agriculture, factory farmnoun
a large-scale farming enterprise
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agribusiness, factory farm, husbandry, farmingfarming, agriculture, husbandrynoun
the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
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agribusiness, husbandry, land, factory farm, farmingDepartment of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDAnoun
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
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agribusiness, factory farm, farming, husbandryagriculturenoun
the class of people engaged in growing food
Synonyms:
agribusiness, factory farm, farming, husbandry
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Editors Contribution
farming cooperatives
it is the same as farming.
working on a farm growing crops like corn, grains, etc.
Submitted by JP03 on December 8, 2014
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
agriculturenoun
Synonyms:
husbandry, farming, terra-culture, geoponics, agronomy
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "agriculture":
agricultural, farming, 'agriculture, agricultura, farm, landwirtschaft, agricoltura, landbouw, 'agricoltura, cultivation, georgia, agrarian, agricole
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#773 | land | |
#1172 | culture | |
#1717 | farm | |
#1719 | georgia | |
#2730 | agriculture | |
#3128 | agricultural | |
#5472 | gardening | |
#7402 | farming | |
#15377 | cultivation | |
#16917 | horticulture | |
#25744 | agribusiness | |
#31571 | husbandry | |
#35100 | agrarian | |
#36169 | tillage | |
#60581 | agricole | |
#78685 | agricultura | |
#83849 | floriculture | |
#206406 | landwirtschaft | |
#248240 | agricoltura | |
#260257 | landbouw |
How to use agriculture in a sentence?
Today's executive order paves the way for common sense regulation to keep America first in agriculture so that we remain the global leader in an economic sector that has offset the U.S. trade imbalance for decades.
The SREs (Small Refinery Exemptions) are a political football for the president, and he's going to have to take a look at how it's affecting agriculture and farmers, i can't say I'm happy with the way the administration has handled implementing the RFS.
There was a widening gap between what was possible and what was actually being applied to agriculture.
Forecasting tends to be optimistic, especially in underdeveloped countries, models often over-predict GDP and under-predict inflation...U.S. Department of Agriculture is predicting a stable growth pattern for Nigeria, and that is curious given that we have not seen that pattern in the past.
We know there are areas where the increase is going to be greater. That will obviously affect rain patterns, and in turn, agriculture and food security.
Translations for agriculture
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- landbouAfrikaans
- زراعةArabic
- kənd təsərrüfatı, əkinçilikAzerbaijani
- ауыл хужалығыBashkir
- агракульту́ра, земляро́бства, се́льская гаспада́ркаBelarusian
- селско стопанствоBulgarian
- কৃষিকার্যBengali
- agriculturaCatalan, Valencian
- zemědělstvíCzech
- ял хуҫалӑхChuvash
- landbrugDanish
- Ackerbau, LandwirtschaftGerman
- γεωπονία, γεωργίαGreek
- agrikulturoEsperanto
- agriculturaSpanish
- põllumajandusEstonian
- nekazaritzaBasque
- کشاورزیPersian
- maanviljelyFinnish
- agricultureFrench
- talmhaíochtIrish
- àiteachasScottish Gaelic
- חקלאותHebrew
- कृषि, खेतीHindi
- mezőgazdaságHungarian
- գյուղատնտեսությունArmenian
- pertanianIndonesian
- agrokultivoIdo
- landbúnaður, jarðyrkjaIcelandic
- agricolturaItalian
- חקלאותHebrew
- 農業Japanese
- სოფლის მეურნეობაGeorgian
- ауыл шаруашылығыKazakh
- កសិកម្មKhmer
- 농업, 農業Korean
- کشتوکاڵKurdish
- айыл чарбасы, айыл чарбаKyrgyz
- agricultura, agriculturaeLatin
- ກະສິກຳLao
- žemės ūkisLithuanian
- lauksaimniecībaLatvian
- земјоделство, полјоделствоMacedonian
- хөдөө аж ахуйMongolian
- pertanianMalay
- agrikolturaMaltese
- စိုက်ပျိုးရေးBurmese
- landbouwDutch
- jordbruk, landbrukNorwegian
- କୃଷିOriya
- rolnictwoPolish
- agriculturaPortuguese
- agriculturăRomanian
- земледелие, агрокультура, агрикультура, фермерство, сельское хозяйствоRussian
- poljodelstvo, земљорадња, пољодјелство, пољопрѝвреда, рата́рство, poljodjelstvo, пољоделство, ratárstvo, poljoprìvreda, zemljoradnjaSerbo-Croatian
- කෘෂිකර්මයSinhala, Sinhalese
- poľnohospodárstvoSlovak
- poljedelstvoSlovene
- agrikulturëAlbanian
- temoSouthern Sotho
- jordbruk, lantbrukSwedish
- kilimoSwahili
- விவசாயம்Tamil
- వ్యవసాయంTelugu
- кишоварзӣTajik
- เกษตรกรรมThai
- ekerançylyk, oba hojalygyTurkmen
- agrikultura, dalubsakahanTagalog
- tarımTurkish
- авыл хуҗалыгыTatar
- агрикульту́ра, землеро́бство, сі́льське господа́рствоUkrainian
- زراعتUrdu
- qishloq xoʻjaligiUzbek
- 農業, nông nghiệpVietnamese
- לאנדווירטשאפטYiddish
- 农业Chinese
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