farm building
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- noun
- /fɑrm ˈbɪldɪŋ/
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edificio agrícola
- During the storm, we had to take shelter in one of the farm buildings for safety.
Examples
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The farm buildings were crammed into what she assumed were the least fertile sections of the property, low-lying, cramped buildings whose walls were covered with gleaming white insulfoam panels.
Fiction book (1990) -
There was never any stopping, just very slow driving past the fields of corn, soybeans, and wheat, slow enough to see how the crops were doing and, occasionally, to take note of newly erected farm buildings and newly painted old ones.
Academic text (1990) -
The construction of farm buildings provides an important area for the study of architectural history.
Academic text (1997) -
And even the machinery and farm buildings come with an energy price.
Blog text (16) -
At the top of a rise, you could see bare fields, farm buildings, and groves of trees for several miles in both directions.
Fiction book (1992) -
The following week, he hired a man with a bulldozer to come out and clear off what was left of the collapsing farm buildings.
Fiction book (1996) -
He looked at the old farm buildings around him, the crops beyond, the sky overhead; for a while, he felt almost blissful.
Fiction book (2000) -
Bass drove up through the late July heat, those endless fields stretching across the perfectly flat land, interrupted only here and there by clumps of cypresses or farm buildings.
Fiction book (1999) -
Instead of a high-tech chrome-and-glass laboratory, the primary testing facilities for this cutting-edge technology were six low-slung gray metal farm buildings where hot breezes swirled dust and feathers.
Academic text (1994) -
The old barn is the largest of all the farm buildings on this property.
Synonyms
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A large farm building for storing hay or keeping animals
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A small simple building in a garden for storing tools
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A building on a farm where horses or other animals live and are kept safe
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1.4
A small farm building where chickens live
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3.9
A small building on the same property as a house used to store tools or to work in
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A building on a farm where people keep horses
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A barn where cows are kept for shelter or milking
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6.2
A small farm building where people hang meat or fish to dry
A building, often a barn, where people keep cows
A barn where farmers give part of their crops to the church
A small building on a farm where people store and sometimes prepare milk and dairy products
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'farm' (agricultural land) + 'building' (edifice) yields a building located on or serving a farm. This noun–noun compounding is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Farm building comes from the simple picture of a farm and a building. It first meant any building on a farm where people keep animals, tools, or crops, so today it means 'a building used for farm work'.