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- Dictionaryfarm/fɑːm/
noun
- 1. an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals: "a farm of 100 acres"
verb
- 1. make one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock: "he has farmed organically for years" Similar
- 2. allow someone to collect and keep the revenues from (a tax) on payment of a fee: historical "the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum"
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FARM definition: 1. an area of land, together with a house and buildings, used for growing crops and/or keeping…. Learn more.
1. obsolete : a sum or due fixed in amount and payable at fixed intervals. 2. : a letting out of revenues or taxes for a fixed sum to one authorized to collect and retain them. 3. : a district or division of a country leased out for the collection of government revenues. 4. : a tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes. 5. a.
A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. [1] .
A farm is a plot of land that is used to grow crops and raise livestock, as in On our farm, we raise sheep and sell their wool. The word farm is also used as a verb to mean to work land to grow crops or to raise animals.
A farm is an area of land, together with the buildings on it, that is used for growing crops or raising animals, usually in order to sell them. Farms in France are much smaller than those in the United States or even Britain. 2. verb. If you farm an area of land, you grow crops or keep animals on it. They farmed some of the best land in Scotland.
a place where a particular type of animal is kept in large numbers in order to be sold: a sheep / fish farm. Fewer examples. Our farm straddles the railway line. As agriculture became more capital intensive, many farm laborers moved to the towns and cities to look for work.
Definition of farm noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. farm. noun. /fɑːm/ /fɑːrm/ Idioms. 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.
1. a tract of land, usu. with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood. 2. land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster farm. 3. the system, method, or act of collecting revenue by leasing a territory in districts.
FARM definition: 1. an area of land with fields and buildings that is used for growing crops and keeping animals as…. Learn more.
A farm is a plot of land that's used for growing food crops or raising livestock. A dairy farm might have cows and fields of grass for them to eat. Some farms consist of barns or other buildings, greenhouses, and fields.
