stud farm
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4.0
- noun
- /stʌd fɑrm/
:
cría de caballos
- So let's move on to our world class stud farm... and meet three of our Kentucky Derby winners.
Examples
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It was a stud farm.
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Owns one of the finest stud farms in the States.
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This is a stud farm, boy.
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Our father was off on a faraway stud farm.
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Then we would have, like, a mother who would have actually raised us and a father off on some faraway stud farm.
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" Also, you mentioned that you wanted to have horse-riding lessons at a stud farm just out of town. Well, I think if you earn enough money from this modeling
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Jean-Pierre would never be able to hold on to the stud farm against his powerful and less scrupulous half-brothers.
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Belair, the Woodward stud farm in Bowie, Maryland, produced two Triple Crown winners.
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With this document, she bequeathed the bulk of her estate to her son Jean-Pierre, but the precious stud farm, the jewel of her inheritance, was sold to the Knights Templar for the princely sum of 1,000 Louis Tournais.
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The family owns a large stud farm where thoroughbred horses are bred for racing.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a farm where horses are bred' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'stud' (a stallion kept for mating) + 'farm' (a tract of land with farm buildings); the noun+noun compound signals a place associated with the modifier. This is a regular, cross-linguistic compounding pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Stud farm comes from keeping a male horse, a stud, on a farm so he can 'father' many foals. Imagine a strong male horse living there and female horses coming to him; that's why the term means 'a farm where horses are bred'.