Cultivated Land

Definition: Cultivated Land

Cultivated Land

Noun

1. Land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.

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Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cultivated Land

Crosswords: Cultivated Land

Women reaping in cultivated land near Krasno i arsk. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cultivated land at Gees Bend, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

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To which let me add, that he who appropriates land to himself by his labour, does not lessen, but increase the common stock of mankind: for the provisions serving to the support of human life, produced by one acre of inclosed and cultivated land, are (to speak much within compass) ten times more than those which are yielded by an acre of land of an equal richness lying waste in common. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Mexico

Only 7% of the total cultivated land are dedicated to vegetable production; the rest is used for forage, grains, and other crops of minor economic impact. (references)

Senegal

Peanut production accounts for around 40 percent of cultivated land, taking up two million hectares, and provides employment for as many as one million people. (references)

Mauritius

Although cane still covers nearly half of the island's land area and over 80% of its cultivated land, the industry's relative importance has declined over the years. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

In addition, since late 1998, the Government has used large amounts of forced labor on a project to double the country's cultivated land by developing 22 million acres of wetlands and virgin land. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

農�"� (farmland). (various references)

Danish

opdyrket omraade (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), opdyrket jord (cropped land, cultivated area), dyrkningsareal (cropped land, cultivated area), dyrket omraade (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), dyrket land (cropped land, cultivated area), dyrket areal (arable lands, area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop, plough lands, tilled lands), agerland (cropped land, cultivated area). (various references)

Dutch

cultuurgrond (cropped land, cultivated area), teeltareaal (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), beteelde oppervlakte (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), behouwde oppervlakte (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area), bebouwde grond (cropped land, cultivated area), bebouwd land (cropped land, cultivated area). (various references)

Finnish

viljelyala (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop). (various references)

French

terre cultivée (cultivated area), terrain labourable (area under cultivation, cultivated acreage, cultivated area), surfaces ensemencées (area under cultivation, cultivated acreage, cultivated area), surface cultivée (area under cultivation). (various references)

German

Kulturland (cropped land, cultivated area), kultiviertes Land (cropped land, cultivated area), bebautes Land (cropped land, cultivated area), bebaute Fläche (area under crop, area under cultivation, built-up area, built-upon area, covered area, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), Anbaufläche (acreage, area under cultivation, cultivable land), Ackerland (arable farm Land, arable land, farmland, infield, plowland). (various references)

Greek 

καλλιεργήσιμες γαίες (cropped land, cultivated area), καλλιεργήσιμος γή (arable soil, cropped land, cultivated area, topsoil), καλλιεργούμενη γη (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area), καλλιεργούμενη επιφάνεια (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), αρόσιμο έδαφος (cropped land, cultivated area). (various references)

Italian

terreno dissodato (cropped land, cultivated area), terreno coltivato (arable lands, cropped land, cultivated area, plough lands, tilled lands), terra coltivata (cropped land, cultivated area), superficie coltivata (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cropped land, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), superficie coltivabile (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area), aree coltivate (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), area coltivata (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cropped land, cultivated area, land under crop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

耕作地 , 開墾地 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かい�"�"ち, �"うさくち. (various references)

Manx

thalloo lhiasit. (various references)

Pig Latin

ultivatedcay andlay

Spanish

tierra cultivada (cropped land, cultivated area), superficie de cultivo (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), superficie cultivada (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), área de cultivo (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop), área cultivada (area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated acreage, cultivated area, land under crop). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: cantillated.

-4 letters: acidulated, cantillate, cavalletti, cultivated, vacillated, victualled.

-5 letters: acidulate, acidulent, activated, adductive, cadential, calendula, candidate, candlelit, canulated, cavaletti, cavitated, cultivate, dalliance, dialectal, landaulet, laudative, tunicated, vacillate, validated, victualed.