farm

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
2. (countable) A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
3. (countable, in-compounds, often) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
4. (countable) A group of coordinated servers.
5. (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
6. (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
7. (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
8. (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.
9. (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
10. The body of farmers of public revenues.
11. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
12. (historical) A baby farm.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
2. (transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
3. (transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
4. 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; to farm out.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.
7. (Internet) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
8. (Internet, broadly) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.

Verb

To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out

Synonyms

cultivate

ranch

field

property

estate

farmstead

land

grow

raise

cultivate land

farming

homestead

plant

🌱

garden

agricultural

work

till

plantation

agriculture

grange

nursery

pasture

produce

culture

rice field

do farming

room

hamlet

rear

stead

khutor

gardening

meadow

paddy field

lift

keep

croft

make

home

🏠

breed

holding

lever

house

🏠

hacienda

heave

cultivated field

elevate

hoist

husbandry

draw

Translations

ferme

Bauernhof

fattoria

boerderij

fazenda

granja

cultiver

finca

vicus

podere

αγρόκτημα

villa

granja

Farm

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fɑːɹm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ferme

Cognate with Old English: feorh

Cognate with Icelandic: fjör

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃

Cognate with Old English: feormehām

Cognate with Scots: ferm

Inherited from Middle English: fermen

Cognate with Old English: feormian

Inherited from Old English: feormian

In summary

Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”), or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).

Sentences

Meadar farm is located in a census region in Arizona State , U . S . A .