What is "farm" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does farm mean in English? Meaning of farm definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "farm" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "farm": workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit

Noun

  • Meaning: workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
  • Example: it takes several people to work the farm
  • Synonyms: farm
  • Hyponyms: cattle farm cattle ranch chicken farm croft dairy dairy farm farm-place farmplace farmstead grange home-farm pig farm piggery ranch sewage farm sheeprun sheepwalk spread stud farm truck farm truck garden vinery vineyard
  • Hypernyms: work workplace
  • Part Holonyms: farmhouse farmyard
  • Meaning of "farm": be a farmer; work as a farmer

    Verb

  • Meaning: be a farmer; work as a farmer
  • Example: My son is farming in California
  • Synonyms: farm
  • Hyponyms: ranch
  • Hypernyms: do work work
  • Meaning of "farm": collect fees or profits

    Verb

  • Meaning: collect fees or profits
  • Synonyms: farm
  • Hypernyms: collect take in
  • Also see: farm out hire out rent out
  • Meaning of "farm": cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

    Verb

  • Meaning: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
  • Example: The Bordeaux region produces great red wines They produce good ham in Parma We grow wheat here We raise hogs here
  • Synonyms: farm grow produce raise
  • Hyponyms: carry keep overproduce
  • Hypernyms: cultivate
  • Adjective: (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal(obsolete) A banquet; feast(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax 1642, tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329: If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill. 1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814: All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase. 1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320: The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.1642, tr. J. Perkins, Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329: If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814: All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320: The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits. 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439: He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439: He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes. 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580: The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580: The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.The body of farmers of public revenues. 1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568: They despair of a suppression of the Farm.1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568: They despair of a suppression of the Farm.The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58: It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants. 1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75: Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals. 1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68: The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.a1599, Spenser, View State Ireland in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) 58: It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75: Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68: The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivationA place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock(usually in combination) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures fuel farm; wind farm; antenna farm(computing) A group of coordinated servers a render farm; a server farm
  • Synonyms:

    meadow, lawn, estate, orchard, ranch, acreage, plantation, field, nursery, grassland, pasture, garden, claim, soil, patch, holding, enclosure, grange, homestead, farmstead, arboretum, freehold, vineyard, acres, demense, plow, reap, tend, graze, sow, cultivate, operate, harvest, grow, plant, ranch, run, garden, subdue, superintend, work, direct, crop, till, seed, husband, pasture, dress, harrow, landscape, look after, homestead, bring under cultivation, till the soil,

    Antonyms:

    ignore, neglect,

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