What does Agriculture mean?

Definitions for Agricultureˈæg rɪˌkʌl tʃər

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Agriculture.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm(noun)

    a large-scale farming enterprise

  2. farming, agriculture, husbandry(noun)

    the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

  3. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA(noun)


  4. agriculture(noun)

    the class of people engaged in growing food


  1. agriculture(Noun)


  2. Origin: From agricultura, from ager, "field" + cultura, "cultivation". See acre, and culture.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Agriculture(noun)


  2. Origin: [L. agricultura; ager field + cultura cultivation: cf. F. agriculture. See Acre and Culture.]


  1. Agriculture


Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Agriculture

    ag′ri-kult-ūr, n. the art or practice of cultivating the land.—adj. Agricult′ural, relating to agriculture.—n. Agricult′urist, one skilled in agriculture: a farmer—also Agricult′uralist. [L. agriculturaager, a field, cultura, cultivation. See Culture.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Agriculture


British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Agriculture' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2634

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Agriculture' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3676

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Agriculture' in Nouns Frequency: #1144


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Agriculture in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Agriculture in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Eva Muller:

    The investment in agriculture was mainly to increase agriculture productivity through intensification rather than in clearing new land for agriculture.

  2. Jim Hightower:


  3. Jason Resnick:

    This action isn't going to bring new workers to agriculture, it's possible that because of this action, agriculture will lose workers without any mechanism to bring in new workers.

  4. Kola Masha:

    A drop in oil should encourage governments to diversify, which should help agriculture businesses, if governments see they need to diversify into areas like agriculture then these oil price shocks won't be so painful.

  5. Stephane Le Foll:

    We're going to work on subjects in particular in agriculture and agribusiness, we'll see the potential and the possibilities for trade with Iran and that also means in the agriculture sector, most notably in meat and chicken.

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