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noun
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: farming, husbandry
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: farming, husbandry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cultivation
Narrower terms: animal husbandry, arboriculture, tree farming, dairying, dairy farming, gardening, horticulture, hydroponics, aquiculture, tank farming, mixed farming, planting, ranching, strip cropping, subsistence farming, truck farming
noun
a large-scale farming enterprise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
noun
the class of people engaged in growing food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, USDA
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: executive department
History
Etymology tree Middle French agriculturebor. Proto-Indo-European *h2eǵ-? Proto-Indo-European *h2éǵros Proto-Italic *agros Latin ager Proto-Indo-European *kwelh1- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kwélh1eti Proto-Italic *kwelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin cultūra Latin agricultūrabor. Middle English agriculture English agriculture From Middle English agriculture, partly from Middle French agriculture and partly from its etymon Latin agricultūra, from ager (“field”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.
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