Meaning of farm In English

• 0 an area of land, together with a house and buildings, used for growing crops and/or keeping animals as a business:

  • a dairy farm

  • farm animals

  • fresh farm produce

  • farm workers

  • She spent the summer working on a farm.

  • a sheep/fish farm

• 1 to use land for growing crops and/or keeping animals as a business:

  • The Stamfords have farmed this land for over a hundred years.

• 2 an area of land, esp. together with a house and other buildings, used for growing crops or keeping animals

  • a cattle/mink farm

• 3 to use land for growing crops or keeping animals as a business:

  • [ I/T ] Their family has farmed (this land) for three generations.

• 4 an area of land, usually with fields and buildings, used for raising animals and growing crops as a business:

  • My family has worked on this farm for generations.

  • farm building/machinery/equipment etc. Pieces of rusting farm equipment lay abandoned in the long grass.

  • farm worker/labourer Farm workers' wages fell sharply towards the end of the century.

  • a sheep/pig/dairy etc. farm His parents ran a small but profitable dairy farm.

• 5 a place where fish or other animals are bred:

  • a trout/fish/salmon etc. farm

  • Animal Rights activists demonstrated outside a local puppy farm last weekend.

• 6 to use land to grow crops, raise animals, etc.:

  • This area has been farmed for thousands of years.