Definitions for agriculture
ˈæg rɪˌkʌl tʃəragri·cul·ture

Princeton's WordNet(3.46 / 11 votes)Rate this definition:

1. agribusiness, agriculture, factory farmnoun

   a large-scale farming enterprise

2. farming, agriculture, husbandrynoun

   the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock

3. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDAnoun

   the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862

4. agriculturenoun

   the class of people engaged in growing food

Wiktionary(2.57 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. agriculturenoun

   The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

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

Webster Dictionary(1.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Agriculturenoun

   the art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming

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

Freebase(3.75 / 8 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Agriculture

   Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel, drugs and other products used to sustain and enhance human life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years, and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates, cultures, and technologies. However, all farming generally relies on techniques to expand and maintain the lands that are suitable for raising domesticated species. For plants, this usually requires some form of irrigation, although there are methods of dryland farming; pastoral herding on rangeland is still the most common means of raising livestock. In the developed world, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture has become the dominant system of modern farming, although there is growing support for sustainable agriculture. Until the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of the human population labored in agriculture. Pre-industrial agriculture was typically subsistence agriculture in which farmers raised most of their crops for their own consumption instead of for trade. A remarkable shift in agricultural practices has occurred over the past century in response to new technologies, and the development of world markets. This also led to technological improvements in agricultural techniques, such as the Haber-Bosch method for synthesizing ammonium nitrate which made the traditional practice of recycling nutrients with crop rotation and animal manure less necessary.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

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. agricultura—ager, a field, cultura, cultivation. See Culture.]

U.S. National Library of Medicine(1.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Agriculture

   The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising.

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1. agriculture

   The science, technology, ability, skills and experience created for farming and farming related products.

   Agriculture is an important facet and sector of society as they create the largest amount of food.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

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

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

3. Nouns Frequency

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

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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

Examples of agriculture in a Sentence

1. Anuj Maheshwari:

   Investor interest in urban agriculture is rising as environmental pressures and technology developments catalyze new ways of producing food locally.

2. Woody Johnson:

   It is not sustainable for the whole world to follow the EU's 'Museum of Agriculture' approach. We have to look to the future of farming, not just the past.

3. Rajendra Aryal:

   Now that the harvest could be at risk (because of fighting), banks aren't providing the loans, for many people, agriculture is the only means of earning a living.

4. Jonathan Gold:

   Retail, manufacturing, farming, agriculture, transportation -- anybody who relies on the ports to move their goods both inbound and outbound are being impacted.

5. Junaid Ahmad:

   We're headed into a perfect storm in which over the next 20 years we will see the demand for water growing significantly, driven by thirsty agriculture, thirsty energy and thirsty cities, if we are to achieve these goals of food and energy security, sustainable urbanisation, and ensure service delivery of water and sanitation to citizens, we now need to figure out how water is going to be allocated across sectors.

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