No one wants to spend years waiting for success. People want to quickly invest money or effort in order to get the maximum return in one season. If their investment or business idea is fruitful, this means that their dream of enrichment will soon come true. A better life is just around the corner! But why do businesses use such "agricultural" terms to indicate success?
Territory of meanings
Russian people, like any other, are initially closely connected with agriculture. Peasant life provided the population with food, clothing, tools for self-defense and shelter for a long time. Therefore, some of the concepts from it have taken root in the language. Nutrition was in the first place in priority, as a result, the key criterion in the development of territories was their fruitfulness. That is, the ability to produce as much crop as possible with limited resources. The characteristic was applied in relation to:
- to the ground;
- to moisture, etc.
Implied a beneficial effect on plants. However, this value is now consideredobsolete! How is the term interpreted now?
The spirit of the times
Just look at the synonyms for "fruitful" to understand the meaning of the word:
- productive;
- productive;
- constructive;
- prolific;
- useful etc.
This is how they describe an action or phenomenon that accelerates the construction and development of something. It can be a teaching activity, the work of a marketer, or a closed environment specially designed by scientists in which microorganisms can frolic freely without fear of external influences. The second, and currently valid, interpretation speaks of creating conditions for growth and evolution.
In parallel, there is a third value that is applied to the object that performs the action. Not only education can be fruitful, but also the teacher himself: his graduates win Olympiads, enter the best universities and lead humanity into the future. For a scientist, the definition applies in the case of incredible breakthroughs or a large number of articles in thematic journals.
Actual characteristics
What do we get as output? In the realities of the 21st century, “fruitful” is a person or his activity in absolutely any field that helps personal or social growth, as well as cultural, intellectual, financial.
Phrases are obtained with a positive connotation and often serve as praise. And in the basethe meaning of the word is used only in books to add color. Although nothing prevents you from showing off your erudition and surprising others with a poetic description of the lands in your summer cottage!
