acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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(noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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(adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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(noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
(noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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aquaculture | (noun) rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food | - |
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aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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aquiculture | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: hydroponics, tank farming |
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arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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counterculture | (noun) a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture | - |
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cult | (noun) a system of religious beliefs and rituals | Synonyms: cultus, religious cult |
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(noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, fad, furor, furore, rage |
(noun) a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false | - |
(noun) followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices | - |
(noun) followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
culteranismo | (noun) an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order. | Synonyms: Gongorismo |
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cultism | (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: devotion, veneration |
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(noun) devotion to the doctrine or a cult or to the practices of a cult | - |
cultist | (noun) a member of a religious cult | - |
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(noun) a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
cultivable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivatable, tillable |
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cultivar | (noun) a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation | - |
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cultivatable | (adjective) (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively | Synonyms: arable, cultivable, tillable |
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cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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(verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
cultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing | - |
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(adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultured, genteel, polite |
(adjective) no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use | - |
cultivation | (noun) (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) | - |
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(noun) socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners | - |
(noun) the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale) | - |
(noun) the process of fostering the growth of something | - |
(noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: culture, finish, polish, refinement |
cultivator | (noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: tiller |
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(noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, grower, raiser |
cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
(adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
(adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
culturally | (adverb) with regard to a culture | - |
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culturati | (noun) people interested in culture and cultural activities | - |
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culture | (noun) the raising of plants or animals | - |
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(noun) (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar) | - |
(noun) the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group | - |
(noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: acculturation |
(noun) the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization | - |
(noun) a particular society at a particular time and place | Synonyms: civilisation, civilization |
(noun) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality | Synonyms: cultivation, finish, polish, refinement |
(verb) grow in a special preparation | - |
cultured | (adjective) marked by refinement in taste and manners | Synonyms: civilised, civilized, cultivated, genteel, polite |
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cultus | (noun) a system of religious beliefs and rituals | Synonyms: cult, religious cult |
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cyberculture | (noun) the culture that emerges from the use of computers for communication and entertainment and business | - |
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difficult | (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: hard |
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(adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: unmanageable |
difficultness | (noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficulty |
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difficulty | (noun) an effort that is inconvenient | Synonyms: trouble |
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(noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficultness |
enculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: acculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
(adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
(adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
faculty | (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: mental faculty, module |
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(noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: staff |
floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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multicultural | (adjective) of or relating to or including several cultures | - |
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multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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occult | (adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, orphic, secret |
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(adjective) hidden and difficult to see | - |
(noun) supernatural practices and techniques | Synonyms: occult arts |
(noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | Synonyms: supernatural |
(verb) hide from view | - |
(verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: eclipse |
(verb) become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished | - |
occultation | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: eclipse |
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occultism | (noun) a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control | - |
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(noun) the study of the supernatural | - |
occultist | (noun) a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts | - |
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overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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sericultural | (adjective) of or relating to sericulture | - |
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sericulture | (noun) the production of raw silk by raising silkworms | - |
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(noun) raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk | - |
sericulturist | (noun) a producer of raw silk | - |
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silviculture | (noun) the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests | - |
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sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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subculture | (noun) a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs | - |
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transcultural | (adjective) extending through all human cultures | - |
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uncultivable | (adjective) not suitable for cultivation or tilling | Synonyms: uncultivatable |
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uncultivatable | (adjective) not suitable for cultivation or tilling | Synonyms: uncultivable |
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uncultivated | (adjective) (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrow, lowbrowed |
(adjective) (of persons) lacking art or knowledge | Synonyms: artless, uncultured |
uncultured | (adjective) (of persons) lacking art or knowledge | Synonyms: artless, uncultivated |
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viniculture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viticulture |
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viticulture | (noun) the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing | Synonyms: viniculture |
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viticulturist | (noun) a cultivator of grape vine | - |
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