farm
farm
/fɑːm/
1 an area of land, and the buildings on it, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals
a 200-hectare farm
a dairy farm
an organic farm
a pig/sheep/poultry farm
He runs the farm on his own.
on a farm to live on a farm
She works on the family farm.
at a farm At harvest time they helped out at the farm.
a farm worker/labourer
farm animals
farm buildings/machinery
farm income/subsidies
(North American English) a farm family
Collocations
adjective
verb + farm
farm + verb
be located
farm + noun
preposition
at a/the farm
down on the farm
on a/the farm
2 (also farmhouse) the main house on a farm, where the farmer lives
3 (especially in compounds) a place where particular fish or animals are kept in order to produce young
a trout/mink farm
SEE ALSO battery farm, collective farm, dairy, factory farm, fish farm, funny farm, health farm, server farm, sewage farm, solar farm, troll farm, truck farm, wind farm, wine farm Idioms
farm
/fɑːm/
The family has farmed in Kent for over two hundred years.
farm something
They farm dairy cattle.
He farmed 200 acres of prime arable land.
They only buy organically farmed produce.
Collocations
adverb
2 transitive farm something to keep fish or birds in order to produce young and sell them for food Salmon are farmed in net pens near coasts.
Ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia.
farmed salmon/trout
Phrasal Verbs
Word Origin
Middle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’; compare with firm (noun). The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; which later gave rise to ‘to subcontract’ (farm somebody/something out to somebody. ). The noun came to denote ‘a lease’, and, in the early 16th cent., ‘land leased for farming’.