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# cultivation

«cultivation» in Mova's school dictionary: **Preparing land and growing crops or plants on it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cultivation; uncountable mostly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Preparing land and growing crops or plants on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#m1)

2) The growing of a particular plant: «the cultivation of rice». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#m2)

3) Developing a skill, quality or friendship carefully over time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#m3)

4) (formal) Being educated and having good manners and taste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons cultivation is about farming: ploughing, planting, watering and harvesting. «Land under cultivation» is land being farmed. In history, people learned the cultivation of wheat and changed from hunting to farming. Phrases: «under cultivation», «the cultivation of», «shifting cultivation», «cultivation of good habits».

### examples

- Rice cultivation needs a lot of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x1)
- This field has been under cultivation for many years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x2)
- The cultivation of potatoes spread across Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x3)
- Good cultivation of the soil helps the seeds grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x4)
- Learning an instrument needs patient cultivation of skill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x5)
- Terraces make cultivation possible on steep hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x6)
- (formal) She was a woman of great cultivation and charm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x7)
- He accordingly gathered round him his zealous followers, and they set forth on their travels, planting the vine and teaching its cultivation wherever they went. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/#x8)

### note

Uncountable in most uses: «a lot of cultivation», not «cultivations». The verb is «cultivate». A «cultivated» person is well educated; a «cultivated» plant is grown by people, not wild.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cultivation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cultivation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.