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Meaning of agriculture | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming.
  2. the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.
  3. the art and science of farming. Also called tillage. — agriculturist, agriculturalist, n. — agricultural, adj.
    n
  4. the branch of geology concerned with the adaptability of land to agriculture, soil quality, etc. — agrogeologist, n.
    n
  5. agronomy.
  6. the science of management in farming. Also spelled agronomics. — agronomist, n.
  7. Rare. useful arts, as agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing.
  8. the cultivation of citrus fruits, as lemons, oranges, etc. — citriculturist, n.
    n
  9. a cultivator or a person who grows things.
  10. Law. the growing of crops and the profits reaped therefrom.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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