cultivator

1. 1.

   someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil

   Synonymsagriculturistagriculturalistgrowerraiser

   Broaderfarmer

   Narrowerfruit growerviticulturist
2. 2.

   a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)

   Synonymstiller

   Broaderfarm machine

   Narrowerharrow

Other forms of cultivator

plural

cultivators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cultivator

What does cultivator mean?

cultivator means "someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cultivator?

cultivator has 4 syllables: cul-ti-va-tor. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for cultivator?

Close synonyms include agriculturist, agriculturalist, grower, raiser, tiller. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cultivator a common word?

cultivator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.