home farm
- noun
- Archaic
:
granja de la casa
- The family grows vegetables and raises chickens on their home farm to provide fresh food for their large estate.
Examples
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Making sure of their Christmas turkey from the home farm.
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I'm wondering what people think of non-vegans/vegetarians who eat meat from a home farm.
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The Korean War started in 1950, so Don/Dick would have been in Korea or back at the home farm about to enlist.
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Every summer, they host a farmer's market at the home farm to sell their organic produce directly to the community.
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After a hard day's work, they returned to the home farm where the smell of fresh bread greeted them.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place with fields and buildings for growing crops or keeping animals
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4.8
The main group of buildings on a farm and the land around them
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'home' (house/estate) + 'farm' (tract of land) yields a farm associated with or belonging to a home or estate. This straightforward compound pattern is cross-linguistically common and a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the basic sense (even if finer estate-related connotations need context).
Etymology
Home farm comes from the simple picture of a farm right beside a big home, where people kept cows and grew vegetables to feed the house. So, it means 'a farm that supplies the house with food and other goods'.