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The act or practice of tilling land and preparing it for crops; the agricultural management of land; husbandry in general.
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Land in a cultivated state; tilled land with its crops.
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The act or process of producing by tillage: as, the cultivation of corn or grass.
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The use of a cultivator upon growing crops.
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The process of developing; promotion of growth or strength, physical or mental: as, the cultivation of the oyster; the cultivation of organic germs, or of animal virus; the cultivation of the mind, or of virtue, piety, etc.
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The state of being cultivated; specifically, a state of moral or mental advancement; culture; refinement; the union of learning and taste.
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Synonyms Training, Discipline, Education, etc. See instruction.— and Refinement, etc. See culture.