Cultivation

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)