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noun
The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: cultivating, cultivation
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Land cultivated in this way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: no-till, no-tillage
noun
the cultivation of soil for raising crops
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: culture
noun
arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tilth
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: land, ground, soil
Narrower terms: fallow
History
From Middle English tillage; by surface analysis, till + -age.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
