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Farm

Farm Meaning & Definition
Farm Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Farm?

[n] workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
[v] cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
[v] collect fees or profits
[v] be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Farm: grow | produce | raise

Related Terms | Find terms related to Farm: acreage | adobe house | agrarian | agrestic | agricultural | agronomic | allotment | arable | arable land | Arcadian | barnyard | barton | be killed | breed | bucolic | building | casa | cattle ranch | charter | chicken farm | cliff dwelling | collective farm | consulate | contract | cotton plantation | countrify | country | country house | country seat | croft | crop | cultivate | culture | dacha | dairy farm | deanery | delegate | demesne | demesne farm | die | dry farm | dryfarm | dude ranch | dwelling house | Dymaxion house | edifice | embassy | erection | fabric | factory farm | fallow | farm out | farmery | farmhold | farmhouse | farming | farmland | farmplace | farmstead | farmyard | fatten | feed | fruit farm | fur farm | garden | geoponic | grain farm | grange | grassland | grow | hacienda | hall | hatch | hire | hire out | holding | homecroft | homefarm | homestead | house | houseboat | job | keep | kibbutz | kolkhoz | lake dwelling | land | lease | lease out | lease-back | lease-lend | lend-lease | let | let off | let out | living machine | location | lodge | lowland | mains | manor farm | manor house | manse | nurture | orchard | parsonage | pastoral | pastoralize | pasture | pen | penthouse | plantation | poultry farm | prefabricated house | presidential palace | provincial | raise | ranch | ranch house | rancheria | rancho | rear | rectory | rent | rent out | roof | run | rural | rustic | rusticate | sharecrop | sheep farm | skyscraper | sod house | split-level | station | steading | stock farm | structure | subcontract | sublease | sublet | till the soil | toft | town house | truck farm | underlet | upland | vicarage | White House

See Also | carry | cattle farm | cattle ranch | chicken farm | collect | croft | cultivate | dairy | dairy farm | do work | farm out | farmhouse | farmplace | farmstead | farmyard | grange | hire out | home-farm | keep | overproduce | pig farm | piggery | ranch | ranch | rent out | sewage farm | sheeprun | sheepwalk | spread | stud farm | take in | truck farm | truck garden | vinery | vineyard | work | work | workplace

Farm In Webster's Dictionary

\Farm\, n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See {Firm}, a. & n.] 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.] 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser. 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. --Burrill. 5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke. 6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. --State Trials (1196).
\Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Farming}.] 1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak. 2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. --Burke. 3. To take at a certain rent or rate. 4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. {To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent.
\Farm\, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

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