agriculture
Meaning of agriculture
noun
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.
late Middle English: from Latin agricultura, from ager, agr- ‘field’ + cultura ‘growing, cultivation’.
Information about agriculture
- It is a name.
- The plural form of agriculture is: agricultures.
- Languages in which agriculture is used:
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Hyphenation of agriculture
agri-cul-ture
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- agriculture is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
agriculture synonyms
Meaning agribusiness:
Meaning farming:
Meaning the action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated:
Meaning the preparation of land for growing crops:
Meaning prepare and cultivate (land) for crops:
Meaning the practice or system of farming in crofts:
Meaning the science of soil management and crop production:
agriculture antonyms
Meaning economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories:
Translation of agriculture
- Spanish: agricultura
- French: agriculture
- Italian: agricoltura
- Portuguese: agricultura
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