farm

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An area of land and buildings used for growing crops or raising animals.

   It takes several people to work the farm.

2. 2
   verb

   To grow crops or raise animals on land for a living.

   His family has farmed this land for generations.

3. 3
   noun

   A place with many similar machines or structures used for one purpose.

   The company built a huge wind farm on the coast.

Common collocations

• farm animal Adjective + noun

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 acquired 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-Eu…

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