cultivation
French, noun/kyl.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
cultivation is spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cultivation is a French feminine noun meaning “cultivation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Travail nécessaire pour mettre un terrain en culture”.
What does cultivation mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecultivation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Travail nécessaire pour mettre un terrain en culture.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cultivation
- cultivations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cultivation?
- /kyl.ti.va.sjɔ̃/
- \kyl.ti.va.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cultivation in French?
cultivation appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).