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TILLAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The cultivation of soil for raising crops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("tillage" is a kind of...):
culture (the raising of plants or animals)
Derivation:
till (work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Synonyms:
cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("tillage" is a kind of...):
ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tillage"):
fallow (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)
Derivation:
till (work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation)
