noun
farm
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noun
1
Land, together with its buildings, used for growing crops or raising animals.
"They spent the summer helping out on their grandparents' farm."
"The farm produces mostly wheat and barley."
2
A facility with many similar units used for an industrial or computing purpose.
"The company runs a huge server farm to power its cloud services."
verb
1
To grow crops or keep livestock as an occupation.
"His family has farmed this land for three generations."
2
To hand off a task, contract, or piece of work to someone else ("farm out").
"The studio farmed out the animation work to a smaller company."
How to Use Farm
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishLand used to grow food or raise animals, or, more loosely, any place with many similar units doing similar work.
Common pairings
work on a farm
farm animals
farm out
server farm
dairy farm
Word Forms
farmed past tense, farmed past tense, farms plural, farms singular, farms singular
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Etymology
From Middle English ferme, "rent" or "provisions" — originally referred to a fixed rent or the food owed to a landlord, only later coming to mean the land itself.