cultivation
/kʌltɪˈveɪʃn
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated: the cultivation of arable crops the economy was based largely on rice cultivation...
- At present, however, only about 10 percent of the nation's agricultural land is under cultivation, and subsistence farming is all but dead.
- There is not a land shortage, but not all arable land is under cultivation.
- The 3,000 students the academy will be able to take will also learn animal husbandry and crop cultivation to help themselves out of poverty.
Synonyms
growing, raising, rearing, farming, culture;
planting, sowing
agriculture, agronomy, horticulture, husbandry;
tillage
2The process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill: the cultivation of good staff-management relations...
- The cultivation of these eight qualities requires both internal and external development.
- The process of building a new society requires - perhaps as much as the development of new institutions-the cultivation of this moral sense.
- For the monk the moral discipline underpins cultivation of the mind in meditation; but for both monks and laymen the cultivation of certain mental skills and attitudes could in turn underpin morality.
Synonyms
improvement, bettering;
education, training, development
3Refinement and good education: a man of cultivation and taste...
- Both show her surrounded by evidence of her cultivation and enlightened tastes in literature, her refined aesthetic sensibilities, and her talent in music.
- It's understood as a mark of educated cultivation, not wilful indulgence or evasion.
- What I have yet to consider is whether this education-or call it cultivation - is in fact there to be hidden.
Synonyms
culture, culturedness, intellectual/artistic awareness, education, erudition, learning, enlightenment, discrimination, good taste, taste, refinement
humorous couth