The processes or instances of preparing land and growing crops, or of developing and improving something through care and effort.
From cultivate + -tion (noun suffix). The word has been used since the 1600s for both agricultural and figurative meanings.
The history of human civilization is basically the history of cultivations—moving from hunting and gathering to farming was the biggest turning point in how we live, and it all started when people figured out how to deliberately grow plants.
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