soil vs tilth

soil and tilth both are nouns.

soil is a verb but tilth is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
soil	Yes	No	Yes	No
tilth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tilth is a hyponym of soil; that is, tilth is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than soil:

soil: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
tilth: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

Other hyponyms of soil include badlands, bottom, bottomland, coastland, cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, overburden, permafrost, polder, rangeland, scablands, greensward, sod, sward, turf, wetland.

soil (noun)	tilth (noun)
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state	arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)	the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
anything regarded as making something unclean
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

soil (verb)	tilth (verb)
make soiled, filthy, or dirty

Difference between soil and tilth

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