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TILTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tilth mean?
• TILTH (noun)
The noun TILTH has 2 senses:
1. the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
2. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Familiarity information: TILTH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("tilth" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth
Hypernyms ("tilth" is a kind of...):
ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tilth"):
fallow (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)
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