Home › Words › E › equicultureequicultureequiculture means the rearing and care of horses.EtymologyFrom Latin equus (“horse”) + cultura (“cultivation”); stem equus from Proto-Italic *ekwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).nounThe rearing and care of horses.e.g.“I imagine a corresponding equiculture. The uppermost quarter of the population, always on horseback, uses up the nation's money to employ another quarter of the population to look after its horses.” — 1979, Sven Lindqvist, Land and Power in South America, page 137:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.husbandry 64% match — The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture. vs equiculture →boviculture 63% match — The rearing and care of cattle. vs equiculture →horseherd 62% match — A person who tends to horses. vs equiculture →zooculture 61% match — The cultivation of animals. vs equiculture →aviculture 60% match — The rearing and care of birds (especially poultry) vs equiculture →hippology 60% match — The study of horses. vs equiculture →horsecraft 59% match — horsemanship vs equiculture →cuniculture 59% match — The agricultural raising of rabbits. vs equiculture →