Meanings
plural tillages
- countableuncountableThe cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
Synonyms: cultivating, cultivation
- countableuncountableLand cultivated in this way.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 13:23 - countableuncountableThe act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
Antonyms: no-till, no-tillage
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
nounThe act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
More synonyms by meaning
nounarable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishtillage
- Englishtillage
From Middle English tillage; by surface analysis, till + -age.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian оран
- оран (oran)cultivation of arable land
Czech obdělávání půdy, orba
- obdělávání půdycultivation of arable land
- orbacultivation of arable land
Danish jordbearbejdning
- jordbearbejdningcultivation of arable land
French labour
- labourcultivation of arable land
German Bestellung, Bodenbearbeitung
- Bestellungcultivation of arable land
- Bodenbearbeitungcultivation of arable land
- bestelltes Landland cultivated in this way
Irish ar
- arcultivation of arable land
Italian coltivazione
- coltivazionecultivation of arable land
Latvian aparšana
- aparšanacultivation of arable land
Portuguese lavoura
- lavouracultivation of arable land
Romanian arătură, pământ arabil
- arăturăcultivation of arable land
- pământ arabilcultivation of arable land
- pământ cultivatcultivation of arable land
Russian земледе́лие
- земледе́лие (zemledélije)cultivation of arable land
Spanish labranza
- labranzacultivation of arable land
Turkish toprağı sürme, sürülmüş toprak
- toprağı sürmecultivation of arable land
- sürülmüş toprakland cultivated in this way
Welsh âr, âr
- ârcultivation of arable land
- ârland cultivated in this way
- ardirland cultivated in this way
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with tillage
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Cite this entry
tillage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tillage
“tillage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tillage. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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