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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cultivation \Cul'ti*va"tion\ (k?l't?-v?"sh?n), noun [Cf. F. cultivation.]
1. The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
2. Bestowal of time or attention for self-improvement or for the benefit of others; fostering care.
3. The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture.
Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. --Hallam.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cultivation
noun
1: socialization through training and education
2: (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops
3: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: {polish}, {refinement}, {culture}, {finish}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
155 Moby Thesaurus words for "cultivation": acculturation, acquired taste, agrarianism, agricultural geology, agriculture, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, appreciation of excellence, apprenticeship, architecture, assembly, basic training, breaking, breeding, building, casting, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, composition, conditioning, construction, contour farming, contour plowing, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivated taste, cultivating, culture, daintiness, delicacy, development, devising, dirt farming, discipline, discrimination, dressing, drill, drilling, dry farming, dryland farming, education, elaboration, elegance, enculturation, enlightenment, erection, excellence, exercise, extraction, fabrication, fallowing, farm economy, farming, fashioning, fastidiousness, fetching-up, finesse, formation, forming, formulation, fostering, framing, fruit farming, furrowing, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, geoponics, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, grain farming, grooming, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harrowing, harvesting, hoeing, housebreaking, husbandry, hydroponics, improvement, in-service training, intensive farming, ladylikeness, listing, machining, making, manual training, manufacture, manufacturing, military training, milling, mining, mixed farming, molding, niceness, nicety, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, plowing, polish, practice, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, pruning, quality, raising, readying, rearing, refinement, refining, rehearsal, rural economy, shaping, sharecropping, sloyd, smelting, socialization, sophistication, strip farming, subsistence farming, subtlety, tank farming, taste, tastefulness, thinning, thremmatology, tillage, tilling, tilth, training, truck farming, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training, weeding, working, workmanship
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