to farm
- verb
- /fɑrm/
- They decided to farm the land together to grow vegetables for the local market.
- farmed salmon
- farmed salmon production
- supply of farmed salmon
So it was really crucial to actually farm these allotment plots.
- So it was really crucial to actually farm these allotment plots.
- They all go down and help that guy farm his land.
- That means like farming and growing things.
- Yeah, I'm thinking about farming or transportation or communication.
- We should just, we shouldn't farm, we shouldn't exploit non human animals at all.
- My goal now I want to farm with goats and chickens and so many dogs.
- She, her family, they're, they're farmers, they farm peonies.
- He said, we farm extensively, not intensively.
- And that's to promote the small family farmed outdoor correctly grown medicine.
Examples
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When I was a kid, I always wanted to fix it up and farm it just right.
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I farm sheep up Dunnerdale way.
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This is how you farm in America.
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Will you stay and farm it yourself?
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Now we can farm our land.
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My people farm, you know.
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For part of every busy year, Nancy helps to farm her family land in northern Utah.
Academic text (1999) -
They all go down and help that guy farm his land.
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Back in the day, my dad farmed it with horses.
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His dad, Pinky Jackson, farmed and counted on the winter wheat crop to feed his family.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
To care for and help a child, animal, or plant grow
Plant and care for crops or plants for food
To grow plants or crops for food
To prepare land for growing crops
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Compounds
- Specialized
An area of land or sea with many tall machines that make electricity from wind
A very large place where people keep many animals in small spaces to make meat, milk, or eggs
- Archaic
A large farm where many people work together, usually run by the government
- Offensive
An informal name for a place where people stay to lose weight by diet and exercise
- Slur
An extremely offensive insulting word for Black people originally used for farm workers
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Etymology
Farm comes from an old word for a 'fixed payment' you made to use land, which is related to the English word firm meaning 'fixed'. Over time that idea moved to the land and the work done there, so to farm is to work the land or raise animals.