CULTIVATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cultivation mean? 

• CULTIVATION (noun)
  The noun CULTIVATION has 5 senses:

1. socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners

2. (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)

3. a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

4. the process of fostering the growth of something

5. the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)

  Familiarity information: CULTIVATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CULTIVATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

her cultivation was remarkable

Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):

acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

Domain category:

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cultivation"):

aquaculture (rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food)

apiculture; beekeeping (the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey)

agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)

culture (the raising of plants or animals)

tilling (cultivation of the land in order to raise crops)

Derivation:

cultivate (prepare for crops)

cultivate (foster the growth of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cultivation; culture; finish; polish; refinement

Context example:

almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art

Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):

flawlessness; ne plus ultra; perfection (the state of being without a flaw or defect)

Derivation:

cultivate (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The process of fostering the growth of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Context example:

the cultivation of bees for honey

Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Derivation:

cultivate (foster the growth of)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("cultivation" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

 Context examples 

A growth medium that is especially used for the cultivation of mycobacterium consisting of LJ Medium without the asparagine.

(Ogawa Growth Medium, NCI Thesaurus)

A complex, defined growth medium developed especially for the primary and secondary cultivation of mycobacterium and for detection of their sensitivity to antimicrobial agents.

(Middlebrook 7H10 Growth Medium, NCI Thesaurus)

A growth medium that is especially used for the cultivation of mycobacterium.

(Lowenstein-Jensen Medium, NCI Thesaurus)

The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising.

(Agriculture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Among those gelatine cultivations some of the very worst offenders in the world are now doing time.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Humility is a Christian grace, and one peculiarly appropriate to the pupils of Lowood; I, therefore, direct that especial care shall be bestowed on its cultivation amongst them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The paper blamed India’s ‘green revolution’ in the mid-1960s, which focused on cultivation of wheat and rice to meet food security demands, for the decline of the area of coarse cereals.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

Cane cultivation faces challenges in addition to the need for judicious use of fertilizers.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

This is consistent with the agricultural intensification process that is known to have occurred, due to the cultivation of cereals, particularly barley.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)