Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun agriculture

4 senses of agriculture

Sense 1
agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm -- (a large-scale farming enterprise)
       => commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business -- (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business")

Sense 2
farming, agriculture, husbandry -- (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
       => cultivation -- ((agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale))

Sense 3
Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA -- (the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862)
       => executive department -- (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Sense 4
agriculture -- (the class of people engaged in growing food)
       => class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class -- (people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class")