agriculture

Noun

Meaning

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

husbandry farming cultivation tillage horticulture agribusiness viticulture Department of Agriculture animal husbandry factory farm ranching Agriculture Department crop production crop growing culture
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Antonyms

development work building making production business
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Hypernyms

class business cultivation stratum social class executive department

Hyponyms

forestry planting gardening horticulture hydroponics animal husbandry

Related terms

agriculturist agricultural

Phrases with the word

commercial agriculture agriculture workers animal agriculture employed in agriculture enthusiasm for agriculture enthusiasm in agriculture

Examples

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. Martin Heidegger

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons? Jane Goodall

There are comparatively few significant inefficiencies in the allocation of the factors of production in traditional agriculture. Theodore Schultz

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. Cicero

There are only two ways to reach the truth -- with literature and agriculture. Chinese Proverb

Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

agriculturalization agriculturalize agriculturally Agriculture Department agriculture on terraces Agriculture Secretary