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farming area

farming area

1 2.3
A rural area where people grow crops or keep animals for food
  • noun
  • /ˈfɑrmɪŋ ˈɛəriə/
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  • I suppose the pink is because of the sparser population in the farming areas?
  • new farming area

And then Zach, right, her grandson is now out doing it in all kinds of other farming areas.

Examples

  • One group lives mainly on a freshwater fish diet on the shore of Lake Nyasa; the other on a mainly vegetarian diet in a nearby farming area.

    Academic text (2000)
  • In rice farming areas, rice offerings are common.

    Academic text (2018)
  • In other words, there was greater biodiversity in the low-intensity farming area than in primary forest.

    Blog text (13)
  • The picture on the left shows what the dry farming areas of the American Midwest were like during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s.

    Blog text (4)
  • The greenhouse effect will raise summer temperatures and make some farming areas arid and useless.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Most often, the designated farming areas were rocky, hard to work, and not terribly fertile.

    Academic text (2005)
  • In the farming areas, we started seeing haystacks that looked like giant mushrooms.

    Blog text (22)
  • Although we live in a farming area, most of us were embarrassed by our ignorance of how those implements were used.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Farming families were transferred to new farming areas such as Abis outside Alexandria.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The farmers in the farming area worked hard to prepare for the planting season.

Synonyms

farmland
vsfarming area
50 1.7

Land where people grow crops or raise animals

is a larger rural region where agriculture is the main activity
cropland
vsfarming area
4 3.0

Land that is used to grow crops like grains or vegetables

is broader, covering rural regions where agriculture, not only crops, dominates
cultivated land
vsfarming area
1 2.9

Land prepared and used for growing crops like wheat or corn

is the wider rural area where agricultural work is the main occupation

Antonyms

1.0

A large town where many people live and work that has its own local government

41 2.7

A place with many people and buildings like a city

How Agricultural

farming area
1 2.3
rural area
68 2.0
village
1.0
town
1.0
city
1.0

Surface Forms

farming area singular
farming areas plural

Morphology

farming + area

The meaning 'a region where agriculture is the main activity' is directly and compositionally derived from 'farming' (cultivating crops/raising animals) + 'area' (a region). This straightforward noun-noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Farming area combines farming, meaning growing crops and keeping animals, and area, meaning a place of land, so you can imagine fields and farms in the same place. That's why it means 'a place where most people work in farming'.