tilth
/tɪlθ/
tilth noun: agricultural labour; husbandry.
Noun
tilth (countable and uncountable, plural tilths)
- Agricultural labour; husbandry.
- The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.
- The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.
- Cultivated land
- Escaped from thicket and from fen at last he saw the tilth of men.1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 11
- Rich cultivated soil.
- One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces.1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 333
tilth meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
tilth in Tamil
- உழவாழம், பண்படுத்தல், பண்படுத்தியதன்மை, மண் நயம்
tilth in Urdu
- کاشت, کاشت کاری, زراعت
tilth in Kannada
- ಹದ, ಉಳುಮೆ
Forms of tilth
| plural | tilths |
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Origin of tilth
From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Words formed from tilth
Words that rhyme with tilth
Questions about tilth
- What does tilth mean?
- Tilth means agricultural labour; husbandry.
- What is tilth in Tamil?
- Tilth in Tamil is உழவாழம், பண்படுத்தல், பண்படுத்தியதன்மை. See Tilth meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tilth?
- Tilth is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tilth?
- Tilth is pronounced /tɪlθ/.
- What is the plural of tilth?
- The plural of tilth is tilths.
Words near tilth in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tilth (page history and authors); tilth (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tilth (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tilth (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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