Agriculture

  • 21AGRICULTURE — s. f. L art de cultiver la terre. Cet homme aime l agriculture, entend bien l agriculture. Encourager, favoriser l agriculture. Les travaux de l agriculture. Traité d agriculture. Société d agriculture. École d agriculture …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 22AGRICULTURE — n. f. Culture de la terre. Cet homme aime l’agriculture, entend bien l’agriculture. Encourager, favoriser l’agriculture. Les travaux de l’agriculture. Traité d’agriculture. Société d’Agriculture. école d’Agriculture …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 23agriculture — agricultural, adj. agriculturally, adv. /ag ri kul cheuhr/, n. 1. the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming. 2. the production of crops, livestock, or… …

    Universalium

  • 24agriculture —    Spanish agriculture is characterized by diversity and unpredictability. In a good year agriculture and fisheries together account for approximately 5 percent of Spain s GDP, but lower than average rainfall from 1991 to 1995 reduced this figure …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 25AGRICULTURE —     Il n est pas concevable comment les anciens, qui cultivaient la terre aussi bien que nous, pouvaient imaginer que tous les grains qu ils semaient en terre devaient nécessairement mourir et pourrir avant de lever et produire. Il ne tenait qu à …

    Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire

  • 26Agriculture —    Austria’s dramatically differentiated topography has determined the country’s varied agriculture. The eastern region of the country, which falls rapidly into the vast Pannonian Plain that extends deeply into Hungary, provides for the broad… …

    Historical dictionary of Austria

  • 27Agriculture — (Roget s Thesaurus) >The economy or management of plants. < N PARAG:Agriculture >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 agriculture agriculture cultivation husbandry farming Sgm: N 1 georgics georgics geoponics Sgm: N 1 tillage tillage agronomy …

    English dictionary for students

  • 28Agriculture —    In the early Middle Ages the vast majority of the population of Europe was dedicated in some fashion or other to food production, which invariably involved agriculture. In early medieval Europe, as well as in later medieval and modern Europe,… …

    Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe

  • 29agriculture — (a gri kul tu r ) s. f. Art de cultiver la terre. •   On a besoin, pour l agriculture, de distinguer les saisons et d en connaître le retour, LA PLACE Expos. V, 1. •   Dans la suite tout ce pays sera peuplé de familles vigoureuses et adonnées à l …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 30Agriculture —    Tilling the ground (Gen. 2:15; 4:2, 3, 12) and rearing cattle were the chief employments in ancient times. The Egyptians excelled in agriculture. And after the Israelites entered into the possession of the Promised Land, their circumstances… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary