agriculture

agriculture

noun

Definition of AGRICULTURE

the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock <the forest was cut down, and the land given over to agriculture>

Synonyms farming, husbandry

Related Words cultivation, culture, farmwork, gardening, horticulture, tillage; agribusiness, agroecology, agronomy; agroforestry, arboriculture, pomology; aquaculture (also aquiculture), hydroponics; animal husbandry, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism; sharecropping