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Definition: Cultivator |
CultivatorNoun1. Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil. 2. A farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cultivator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1755. (references) |
Synonyms: CultivatorSynonyms: agriculturist (n), grower (n), raiser (n), tiller (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor, agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist; Triptolemus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cultivator |
| English words defined with "cultivator": Agricolist ♦ Buggy cultivator ♦ Croker, Culturist ♦ Gang plow ♦ harrow, Horse hoe ♦ Plougher ♦ Rosarian, Ryot. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cultivator": Horticultor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cultivator" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (cultivator, grower). |
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 | Mr. Charlie McGuire (tenant purchase borrower) with his two mules and cultivator. Pike County, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farmer inspects a cultivator, Central Iowa 4-H Club fair, Marshalltown, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer adjusting cultivator. Fairfield Bench Farms, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farmer with tractor and cultivator. Fairfield Bench Farms, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | R.E. Sneed, rehabilitation client and eight year old daughter on cotton cultivator. Near Batesville, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Double shovel" cultivator being repaired at Sunflower plantation. Near Sunflower, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sugar beet cultivator. Rosebud County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mechanization proceeds by stages. Here the tractor pulls a riding plow. Next stages are two four-row cultivators cultivating more rows and eliminating the man on the cultivator, near Centrae, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Amish farmer driving cultivator. Their religion bans powered cultivators on the soil or rubber-wheeled tractors, but all horse-drawn, steel-wheeled machinery is widely used. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Inkster (vicinity?), Michigan. Farmer using a cultivator on a farm. Typical farm truck. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A few rusty farm tools lay about, a disk plow and a broken cultivator, an iron wheel. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Recent developments that have proved popular are loppers with telescopic arms to reach inaccessible tree branches, and the Garden Claw, which acts as a weeder, cultivator, and aerator. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Equally important is it to provide at home a market for our raw materials, as by extending the competition it will enhance the price and protect the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cultivator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cultivator" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cultivator": Buggy cultivator ♦ Gang cultivator ♦ rotary cultivator. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cultivator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kultivues (cropper), kultivator (rearer, tiller). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المسلفة أداة للعزق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | култиватор, който обработва, поощрител (promoter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 耕地机. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zemìdìlec (farmer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | radrenser (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, horse hoe, lister, scuffler for animal draft, single shovel plow, subsurface tiller, weeder, weeding machine), lugemaskine (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller, weeder, weeding machine), kultivator med S-formede tænder (Danish cultivator), kultivator med C-formede tænder (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator), kultivator (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller), hesteharve (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller), grubber med S-formede tænder (Danish cultivator), grubber med C-formede tænder (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cultivator (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller), triltandcultivator (Danish cultivator), sleepcultivator (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator), schoffelmachine (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, inter-plant hoe, lister, steerage hoe, subsurface tiller, weeder, weeding machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ماشین شخم زنی وعلف هرزه کنی , کشتکار (Tiller), برزگر (Sower, Yokel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | veitsirullaäes (rotary cultivator with blades, rotary cultivator with knives), taltta-aura (chisel, chisel cultivator, chisel plow, Orchard cultivator, subsoil cultivator, subsoil tiller), keihäänteräkultivaattori (cultivator with lance shaped prongs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cultivateur danois (Danish cultivator), cultivateur canadien (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator), cultivateur dents en S (Danish cultivator), cultivateur dents en C (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator), cultivateur, vibroculteur (Danish cultivator, vibrating tine cultivator), sarcleuse, bineuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | landwirt (agriculturist, countryman, farmer, husbandman, peasant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλλιεργητική μηχανή, καλλιεργητήσ (grower, husbandman, planter, tiller), καλλιεργητής καναδικού τύπου (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator, C-type), καλλιεργητής με δόντια σχήματος S (Danish cultivator, S-type), καλλιεργητής με δόντια σχήματος C (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator, C-type), καλλιεργητής (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller), καθαριστής ζιζανίων (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller), σκαλιστήρι (hoe, poker, spud, weeder), δονητικός καλλιεργητής (Danish cultivator, S-type). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטפח, קלטרת. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kultivátor (extirpator), kapálógép, földművelő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | petani (farmer, hind, peasant), penanam, pemupuk (enricher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coltivatore tipo danese (Danish cultivator, S-type), coltivatore con denti ad S (Danish cultivator, S-type), coltivatore con denti a C (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator, C-type), coltivatore canadese (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator, C-type, horse hoe), zappatrice (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, mechanical hoe, subsurface tiller), sarchiatrice (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller, weeder, weeding machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 耕耘機 (farm tractor, tiller), 耕運機 (farm tractor, tiller), 耕作者 , カルスト地形 (boy, caldera, cardamom, cartel, Cartier, clinical records, culture, culture center, culture shock, karst, quartet, Quartier Latin), 中耕機 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うさくしゃ, "うう"き (farm tractor, tiller), カルチベーター , ちゅう"うき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 배양자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiaseyder (amender, atoner, corrector, curer, improver, manurer, propitiator, recompenser, repairer, revisionary, rewarder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ultivatorcay cultivador (cropper, grower), vibrocultor (Danish cultivator, S-type, vibrating tine cultivator), sachador (hoe-cultivator, hoeing machine, lister, subsurface tiller, weeder, weeding machine), escarificador de dentes vibráteis (Danish cultivator, S-type), escarificador de dentes em C (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator, C-type), escarificador canadiano (Canadian cultivator 3)Canadian spring-tine cultivator, C-type), agricultor (agriculturalist, agriculturist, farmer, husbandman, producer, tiller). (various references) cultivator (grower), agricultor (agriculturist, farmer, husbandman, peasant, ploughman). (various references) культиватор (extirpator, rearer, tiller), земледелец (agriculturist, husbandman, ryot, tiller), пропашник. (various references) kultivator (extirpator). (various references) cultivador (cropper, farmer, grower, tiller). (various references) odlare (cropper, fancier, farmer, grower, plantation owner, planter, tiller). (various references) yetiştirici (farmer, grower, producer), saban (grubber, plough, plow), ekici (planter), çiftçi (agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, bucolic, crofter, farmer, hillbilly, husbandman, ploughman, plowman, yeoman). (various references) kultiwator (r). (various references) культиватор (extirpator, grubber, propagator, rearer, tiller), землероб (husband, tiller). (various references) người l m ruộng (agriculturalist, agriculturist, culturist, husbandman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | agricola, agricolae, agricolam, agricolarum, agricolas, agricolis, arator, coloni, colonis, colono, colonos, colonus, cultor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cultivator": cultivators. (additional references) | |
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"Cultivator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: culivator, cultivi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cultivator" (pronounced 'Cul"ti*va`tor'): Abbreviator, Abdicator, Abnegator, Abrogator, Accelerator, Accommodator, Accumulator, Actuator, Adjudicator, Adjutator, Adulator, Adulterator, Aggregator, Agitator, Agricultor, Alleviator, Alliterator, Alternator, Amalgamator, Ambulator, Ameliorator, Animator, Annihilator, Annotator, Annunciator, Anticipator, Appreciator, Approbator, Appropriator, Approximator, Arbitrator, Arborator, Architector, Articulator, Aspirator, Assassinator, Associator, Auscultator, Calorisator, Capitulator, Caveator, Celebrator, Circulator, Circumnavigator, Coagulator, Collaborator, Collimator, Collocutor, Commemorator, Commentator. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-r-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: cultivar, outcavil, outrival, tutorial, vortical. | |
-3 letters: citator, curtail, ricotta, titular, victual, virtual, voltaic. | |
-4 letters: aortic, caroli, cavort, citola, citral, coital, cottar, curial, curtal, lictor, lorica, ocular, outact, ovular, rialto, rictal, ritual, tailor, toluic, torula, tricot, turaco, uracil, uratic, valour, viator, victor. | |
-5 letters: actor, atilt, attic, aulic, auric, carol, cavil, claro, clavi, clour, clout, coati. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-r-t-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: cultivators. | |
+3 letters: voluntaristic. | |
+4 letters: overarticulate. | |
+5 letters: overarticulated, overarticulates, overcultivation, ultraconvenient. | |
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