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noun
Agricultural labour; husbandry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Cultivated land
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Rich cultivated soil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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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, tillage
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Broader terms: land, ground, soil
Narrower terms: fallow
noun
the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: condition, status
History
From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
