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Synonyms for farming
ˈfɑr mɪŋfarm·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
farming
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:
agriculture, cultivation, culture, floriculture, gardening, horticulture, husbandry, kitchen-gardening, market-gardening, tillage
Princeton's WordNet
farming, agriculture, husbandrynoun
the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Synonyms:
agribusiness, husbandry, land, factory farm, agricultureAntonyms:
urbanfarming, landadjective
agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
"farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
Synonyms:
commonwealth, res publica, estate, landed estate, ground, agriculture, nation, soil, kingdom, solid ground, state, dry land, realm, land, husbandry, country, acres, demesne, earth, body politic, terra firma, domainAntonyms:
urbanagrarian, agricultural, farming(a)adjective
relating to rural matters
"an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"
Antonyms:
urban
Dictionary of English Synonymes
farmingnoun
Synonyms:
agriculture, husbandry
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
farmingadjective
Synonyms:
agriculturalfarmingnoun
Synonyms:
agriculture, husbandry
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "farming":
agriculture, agricultural, farm, cultivation, rearing, husbandry, livestock, breeding, ranching, agricoltura, agricultura, landbouw, farmer, agrarian, agricole, landwirtschaft, production
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#111 | state | |
#396 | country | |
#450 | estate | |
#773 | land | |
#884 | production | |
#910 | domain | |
#987 | kingdom | |
#1172 | culture | |
#1333 | earth | |
#1346 | ground | |
#1717 | farm | |
#1849 | nation | |
#2730 | agriculture | |
#3128 | agricultural | |
#3202 | soil | |
#4754 | acres | |
#5472 | gardening | |
#5651 | commonwealth | |
#5867 | farmer | |
#7402 | farming | |
#7941 | breeding | |
#8143 | livestock | |
#8788 | realm | |
#15377 | cultivation | |
#16917 | horticulture | |
#25338 | rearing | |
#25744 | agribusiness | |
#31571 | husbandry | |
#35100 | agrarian | |
#36169 | tillage | |
#50011 | ranching | |
#60581 | agricole | |
#78685 | agricultura | |
#83849 | floriculture | |
#125475 | demesne | |
#206406 | landwirtschaft | |
#248240 | agricoltura | |
#260257 | landbouw |
How to use farming in a sentence?
I came out of agricultural college incredibly enthusiastic about farming, we'd been taught that conventional farming can work.
Politically, I think it's very conservative here, with a big farming community, everybody that runs around here on( the) Democrat side seems to be just, very, very to the left.
Many people live in urban areas and they have interests in participating in farming but they cannot physically be there and this offers them a platform to do that.
The NCPO will send soldiers to every village to create understanding so that villagers are not listening to information that is different from the truth, in terms of farming, if there is not enough water, we might ask them to stop farming or switch to another crop.
I think it has set India apart from some of the other tiger range countries. If Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar look at China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, there's more emphasis on tigers in captivity, farming and valuing tigers for their body parts higher than the survival of tigers in the wild.
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