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CULTIVATION
Definition of CULTIVATION
noun
The art or act of cultivating (improvement of land for or by agriculture), as: Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Medieval Latin cultivātus, perfect passive participle of cultivō, + -ion, or Middle French cultivation. By surface analysis, cultivate + -ion.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Middle French
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (908)
branch · 12.8% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CULTIVATION · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CULTIVATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CULTIVATION starts with C and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACIILNOTTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and I appear more than once.
Words that start CULTIVA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CULTIVATION?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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