Farm Animals Family Dairy Country Latin Noun Fɑːm

• a 200-hectare farm
• a dairy farm
• an organic farm
• a pig/sheep/poultry farm

farm

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.
• to live on a farm
• She works on the family farm.
• At harvest time they helped out at the farm.
• a farm worker/labourer
• farm animals
• farm buildings/machinery
• farm income/subsidies
• a farm family

Extra Examples

• During the war, few men were left to work the farm.
• Farm incomes rose 11% last year.
• Farm produce, including fruit and corn, was their principal export.
• He had lived on that farm all his life.
• I was raised on a country farm.
• Local farm supply stores are expected to lose business.
• Republicans hope to pass the farm bill in the current fiscal year.
• She lives on the next farm.
• Ten model farms have been set up to showcase modern production methods.
• The 80-acre farm now operates around the clock.
• The EU has decided to cut farm subsidies.
• The area combines a working farm and a farming museum.
• The children had to work on the family farm.
• The farm economy was stable.
• The farm lies on the hills above the lake.
• The farmer's wife runs the farm shop.
• The myth of happy and contented animals down on the farm is now far from the truth.
• The police are investigating a fire at a farm near Whitby.
• Today, the farm sector employs about 3% of our workforce.
• We anticipate our overall farm production next year to be lower.
• a dairy farm producing gourmet cheeses
• a farm growing tobacco
• a poor farm family
• an Illinois farm town
• farm products such as eggs and vegetables
• the EU farm policy
• the US farm program for wheat
• the rolling farm country of central Kentucky
• village and farm life
• Many farm workers face low wages and poor working conditions.
• The two disused farm buildings have stood empty since we took over the farm ten years ago.
2. the main house on a farm, where the farmer lives
3. a place where particular fish or animals are kept in order to produce young
• a trout/mink farm
4. to risk everything you have on an investment, a bet, etc.
• The company bet the farm on the new marketing model, only to find that it wasn’t successful.
5. to get back a country's assets, such as land or property, after they have been owned by another country
• The prime minister revealed his plan to buy back the farm from foreign ownership.
6. to die
7. to sell a country's assets, such as land or property, to foreign owners
• The government is happy to keep selling off the farm.

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’.