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Meaning of FARM

Pronunciation:  fârm

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
  2. [v]  cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here"
  3. [v]  collect fees or profits
  4. [v]  be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California"
 
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 Synonyms: grow, produce, raise
 
 See Also: carry, cattle farm, cattle ranch, chicken farm, collect, croft, cultivate, dairy, dairy farm, do work, farm out, farmhouse, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, grange, hire out, home-farm, keep, overproduce, pig farm, piggery, ranch, ranch, rent out, sewage farm, sheeprun, sheepwalk, spread, stud farm, take in, truck farm, truck garden, vinery, vineyard, work, work, workplace

 

 

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Farm\, n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr.
    L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See
    {Firm}, a. & n.]
    1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of
       part of its products. [Obs.]
    2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a
       leasehold. [Obs.]
             It is great willfulness in landlords to make any
             longer farms to their tenants.        --Spenser.
    3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the
       purpose of cultivation.
    4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under
       the management of a tenant or the owner.
    Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent,
          continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from
          the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so
          from the legal sense. --Burrill.
    5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the
       collection of the revenues of government.
             The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke.
    6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods;
       as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
             Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of
             10,000 marks per annum.               --State Trials
                                                   (1196).
    
  2. \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Farming}.]
    1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to
       yield the use of to proceeds.
             We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.
    2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the
       revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a
       percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
             To farm their subjects and their duties toward
             these.                                --Burke.
    3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
    4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to
       till, as a farm.
    {To farm let}, {To let to farm}, to lease on rent.
    
  3. \Farm\, v. i.
    To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a
    farmer.
    
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

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Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Seeing or live on a farm in your dream, suggests that you need to develop aspect of yourself and utilize your potential. You are ready for growth.
 
Easton Bible Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

(Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS ¯(n/a); TITHE.)

 
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