Synonyms for agriculture
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Farming
farming, husbandry, cultivation, geoponics rare, thremmatology rare
2. Factory farm
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the growing and harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.
Meronyms: tillage, cropping
Related words
- Phrases
- intensive agriculture
Forms
- Plural
- agricultures → farmings, husbandries, cultivations, agri-businesses…
Choose the right word
Husbandry is a general word for any form of practical agriculture, but is now chiefly poetical.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- farming Sami grew up in a remote farming village in Egypt.
- cultivation Plants are formed with cultivation, humans with education.
- culture In culture, they are on the same plane as savages.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| agriculture | falling | |
| farming | falling | |
| cultivation | falling | |
| husbandry | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- culture2, farming2
- 9 letters
- husbandry3, geoponics
- 11 letters
- cultivation4
- 13 letters
- thremmatology
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (culture2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- agriculture
- Italiano
- agricoltura
- Deutsch
- Landwirtschaft
- Català
- agricultura