cultivator
/'kʌltiveitə/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A farm implement: A cultivator is a piece of agricultural equipment used to prepare soil for planting. Its primary functions are to break up the surface layer of soil, aerate it, control weeds, and help conserve moisture.
- A person who cultivates: A cultivator is someone who is involved in the practice, science, art, or business of growing crops and tending the soil.
Usage and Examples
- Noun (Farm Implement):
- The farmer attached the cultivator to the tractor to prepare the field for sowing.
- Using a cultivator helps to uproot weeds without disturbing the crop roots too much.
- Noun (Person):
- He was a skilled cultivator, known for his innovative organic farming techniques.
- As a cultivator of rare orchids, her greenhouse was a place of wonder.
Advanced Usage
- Figurative Use: While the core meaning is agricultural, "cultivator" can be used metaphorically to describe someone who nurtures or develops something abstract.
- She was a cultivator of young talent, always mentoring new artists in the studio.
Variants and Related Words
- Cultivate (verb): To prepare and use land for crops or gardening; to try to acquire or develop a quality, skill, or relationship.
- They worked to cultivate a sense of community in the neighborhood.
- Cultivation (noun): The action of cultivating land; the process of trying to acquire or develop something.
- The cultivation of rice requires a lot of water.
- Agriculturalist / Agronomist (noun): A specialist in soil management and crop production. This is a more specific scientific term related to one aspect of being a cultivator.
Synonyms
- Noun (Implement): Tiller, harrow.
- Noun (Person): Farmer, grower, agriculturist, tiller of the soil.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- "A cultivator of the earth": A somewhat formal or literary phrase meaning a farmer or someone who works the land.
- His ancestors were simple cultivators of the earth for generations.
Noun
- a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)
- someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil