Cultivation may refer to:
The state of having or expressing a good education (bildung), refinement, culture, or high culture
Gardening
The controlled growing of organisms by humans
Agriculture, the land-based cultivation and breeding of plants (known as crops), fungi and domesticated animals
Crop farming, the mass-scale cultivation of (usually a specific single species of) plants as staple food or industrial crop
Horticulture, the cultivation of non-staple plants such as vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees and grass
Fungiculture, the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi for producing food, medicine and other commercially valued products
Animal husbandry, the breeding of domesticated mammals (livestock and working animals) and birds (poultry), and occasionally amphibians (e.g., bullfrogs) and reptiles (e.g. snakes, softshell turtles and crocodilians)
Insect farming, the breeding of economic insects such as honeybees, silkworms and cochineals
Aquaculture, the controlled breeding or "farming" of aquatic animals, plants and algae
Pisciculture, the breeding of fish
Algaculture, the breeding of algae, particularly seaweeds
Tillage, the cultivation of fertile soil (etymological meaning of cultivation)
Land development
Colonization, socio-political cultivation of land
Colonialism, the idea of socio-political cultivation of land and people
Civilizing mission, cultivation of people in the sense of cultural assimilation or forced assimilation
Developmentalism
Microbiological culture, a method of multiplying microbial organisms
Cultivation theory, George Gerbner's model of media effects
A common translation for several terms originating in Chinese and broader East Asian philosophy and literature, such as Qigong and Kung Fu practices (including martial arts), Self-cultivation, and certain supernatural tropes often featured in Xianxia fiction.
As a proper noun
Cultivation, a video game by Jason Rohrer
Cultivation, a 2006 album by Gram Rabbit
Cultivate (store)
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