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farm Definition

farm (färm)

noun

    1. Obsolete a fixed sum payable at regular intervals, as rent or taxes
    2. the letting out, for a fixed amount, of the collection of taxes, with the privilege of keeping all that is collected
    3. the condition of being let out at a fixed rent
  2. a district of a country leased out by a government for the collection of taxes
  3. a piece of land (with house, barns, etc.) on which crops or animals are raised: orig., such land let out to tenants
  4. any place where certain things are raised a tract of water for raising fish is a fish farm
  5. Sports a minor-league team, esp. a baseball team, having an agreement with a major-league team to train its young or inexperienced players

Etymology: ME < OFr ferme < ML firma, fixed payment, farm < firmare, to farm, lease, orig., to make a contract < L, to make firm, secure < firmus, firm

transitive verb

  1. to cultivate (land)
  2. to cultivate or rear (plants or animals) on a farm
  3. to collect the taxes and other fees of (a business) on a commission basis or for a fixed amount
  4. to turn over to another for a fee

intransitive verb

to work on or operate a farm; raise crops or animals on a farm

farm Idioms

farm out

  1. to rent (land, a business, etc.) in return for a fixed payment
  2. to send (work) from a shop, office, etc. to workers on the outside
  3. to let out the labor of (a convict, etc.) for a fixed amount
  4. to destroy the fertility of (land), as by failing to rotate crops
  5. ☆ Baseball to assign to a farm ()

farm Synonyms

farm

n.

plantation, ranch, homestead, field, grange, pasture, meadow, grassland, truck farm, estate, farmstead, enclosure, land, claim, holding, improved farm, acres, freehold, leasehold, cropland, soil, acreage, garden, patch, vegetable garden, orchard, nursery, vineyard, demesne, hacienda, kibbutz, collective farm, experiment station, estancia (Spanish American), croft (British), spread*.

farm Synonyms

farm

v.

cultivate land, engage in agronomy, raise crops, cultivate, till, garden, work, plow, hoe, plant, sow, operate, superintend, look after, lease, run, ranch, crop, graze, homestead, run cattle, run sheep; raise cattle, raise pigs, raise chickens, etc.; husband, produce, grow, enclose, pasture, break the soil, till the soil, take up a claim, sharecrop, dress the ground, hop clods*; see also farming.

farm Usage Examples

Object

  • salmon: It takes 5 tons of fish caught from the sea to produce one ton of factory farmed salmon ( 39 ).
  • acre: He farmed 75 acres, the greater part of which was pasture.

Adjective modifier

  • organic: On non organic farms the norm is for four cows to be kept on the same area.
  • offshore: North Hoyle, the UK's first major offshore wind farm.
  • onshore: Around half the planning applications for onshore wind farms in the UK fail.
  • collective: A total of 92 percent of agricultural lands is owned by state and collective farms.
  • upland: I could not have been more wrong about organic animals from upland farms.
  • mixed: The organic rules as devised by Europe, and you, seem to be designed for mixed farms and not for permanent pasture farms.

Modifies a noun

  • laborer: Their first son Jas, a 19 year old farm laborer, had been born in Longton.
  • animal: He worked on a farm with cattle + all farm animals.
  • diversification: Support for farm business diversification was also provided under the last round of EU funding.
  • subsidy: Some of the report's findings, including the stance on farm subsidies, run counter to the National Corn Grower's official views.
  • machinery: Farmer Bell gets all his farm machinery from him.
  • building: The new business is housed in a renovated farm building.

Noun used with modifier

  • wind: Wind farm A group of wind turbines located in areas exposed to wind.
  • dairy: There are now more bureaucrats in DEFRA than there are dairy farms in England.
  • pig: A pig farm was established on ground where later the Burgh Caravan site was laid out.
  • sheep: Now, Strath Brora was cleared in 1819 or before then for the upper part under the great Marshall and Atkinson sheep farm.
  • acre: Choose from our range of self-catering properties all situated within the grounds of our 65 acre farm.
  • livestock: Admission: £ 4.50 adults Children £ 3.50 with under 2s free - Family £ 15 Working livestock farm.