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Farm

Definition: Farm

Farm

Adjective

1. Found on a farm; "farm animals"; "a farm hand".

Noun

1. Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm".

Verb

1. Be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California".

2. Collect fees or profits.

3. Cultivate by growing; often involves improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "farm" was first used: sometime around 1300. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Farm

DomainDefinition

Computing

Farm processor farm. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Agriculture

As defined for purposes of the Census of Agriculture since 1978, a farm is any place that has, or has the potential to produce, $1,000 or more in annual gross sales of farm products. According to the 1992 Census of Agriculture, there are about 1.925 million farms in the United States. This number includes all farm sizes and ownership structures, including corporate farms, partnerships, and family farms. (references)
 Farm Animal Reform Movement. (references)

Bible

Farm (Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS ¯(n/a); TITHE.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you are living on a farm, denotes that you will be fortunate in all undertakings.
To dream that you are buying a farm, denotes abundant crops to the farmer, a profitable deal of some kind to the business man, and a safe voyage to travelers and sailors.
If you are visiting a farm, it signifies pleasant associations. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Food & Agriculture

A single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and which produces agricultural products. Source: European Union. (references)
 The best silk is obtained from the cultivated variety. . of silkworm. . , which is bred in filature or farms. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Farm means food; so called because anciently the tenant was required to provide the landlord with food by way of rent. (Anglo-Saxon, fearme, food.)
To farm taxes is the French affermer (to let or lease), from ferme, a letting for the supply of food. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Medicine

Any establishment or, in general, any geographically defined installation in which aquaculture animals are reared or kept with a view to their being placed on the market. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Farm

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A farm is an agricultural enterprise owned and operated by the same family or company, where crops, and possibly also livestock, are raised.

Enterprises where livestock are raised on rangeland are called ranches. Where livestock are raised in confinement on feed produced elsewhere, the term feedlot is usually used.
A truck farm is a farm that raises vegetables, but little or no grain. Truck is an archaic word for vegetables.
Orchard is used for enterprises producing tree fruits or nuts, and vineyard is used for enterprises producing raisins, wine or table grapes.
Stable is used for operations principally involved in the production of horses.

See agriculture for a detailed article.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Farm."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Farm

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
FABASEnglishFarm Amalgamations and Boundary Adjustment SchemesN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Farm

Synonyms: farm(a) (adj), grow (v), produce (v), raise (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Farm

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft.

Agriculture

Verb: cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset.

Field, meadow, garden; botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot, grassplat, lawn; park. (pleasure ground); parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery; farm. (abode).

Borrowing

Hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Property

Manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium; (free); fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado, merestead, ranch.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Farm

English words defined with "farm": cattle farm, chicken farm, collective farmdairy farmfarm bill, farm boy, farm building, farm girl, farm workerOstrich farmpig farmsewage farm, stud farmtruck farm. (references)
Specialty definitions using "farm": Cash grain farm, Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961, Corporate farmdisk farm, Domestic farm laborFarm acreage base, Farm Credit Act of 1971, Farm Credit Administration, Farm Credit Banks, Farm Credit System, Farm Credit System Assistance Board, Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation, farm duty, Farm equity, Farm income, Farm income and balance sheet, Farm inputs, Farm labor housing grants, Farm labor housing loans, farm laborer, Farm loan programs of the FSA, farm mechanic, Farm Operating Loans, Farm operator, Farm ownership loans, Farm programs, Farm residence, Farm Service Agency, Farm size, farm suspected of being infected, Farm to retail price spread, Federal Farm Credit Banks Funding Corporation, FEED AND FARM MANAGEMENT ADVISER, field-equipment-maintenance mechanic, farmGENERAL MANAGER, FARM, Gross farm incomeinfected farm, Integrated Farm Management Programlaborer, dairy farm, laborer, game farm, link farmMANAGER, DAIRY FARMNational farm program acreage, Net farm incomeprocessor farmSmall farm, Subsistence farm. (references)
Etymologies containing "farm": manse. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Farm" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (farm, grange, ranch, station), Hungarian (farm, grange, ranch), Swedish (farm, ranch).

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Modern Usage: Farm

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Old McManus had a farm, E, I, E, I, O. And on that farm he shot some bad guys (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie)

I had a farm in AfricaI had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills (Out of Africa; writing credit: Isak Dinesen; Kurt Luedtke)

Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo eat apple sauce through a straw pork farm animals (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Farm boy, polish my horse's saddle (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Farm aide (Bio-Dome; writing credit: Adam Leff; Mitchell Peck)

Lyrics

You can tell my arms go back to the farm, ("Achy Breaky Heart"; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

I should have stayed on the farm (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John)

Well life on the farm is kinda laid back (Thank God I’m A Country Boy; performing artist: John Denver)

His father died and left him a little farm in New England (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

You made friends at the farm (WHERE HAVE ALL THE COWBOYS GONE?; performing artist: Paula Cole)

Movie/TV Titles

The Clinton Special: A Film About the Farm Show (1974)

Funny Farm (1974)

Caffeteria or How Are You Going to Keep Her Down on the Farm after She's Seen Paris Twice (1973)

Ananse's Farm (1973)

The Little Farm (1973)

Song Titles

Groovy Train (performing artist: The Farm)

Lucy Ann (performing artist: Harm Farm)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Farm

DomainTitle

References

  • Akikawa Foods & Farm Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Seven J Stock Farm, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Farm Family Holdings, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Farm Fish, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable (reference)

  • Animal Farm (reference)

  • Farm Team: A Billy Baggs Novel (reference)

  • Guidelines for Establishing Farm Forestry Accountancy Networks: Mosefa (Monitoring the Socio-Economic Situation of European Farm Forestry) European c (reference)

  • Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Farm

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Photo Album: Farm

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Various members of a family can be seen in a garden setting picking beans. In the background a farm house and the mountains can be seen. It is a summer day. These people are members of a large Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pictured are two young sisters playing on a swing. It is an outdoor summer, sunny setting. In the background a large home may be seen and a farm style setting. Hese are two members of a large Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

If you're up to your hips in alligators, it must be Florida An alligator farm in Florida. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

South Pole Station antenna farm illuminated by setting sun. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Volunteers plant native hardwood trees along the bank to help stabilize the riparian habitat. Much of Pratt Farm was ditched and drained for agriculture, the restoration work was conducted to return the straight ditched area to a natural stream form with meanders and sinuosity. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Workers plant shrub species in the emergent wetland area, note the still active farm in the background. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Tornado crushes and rolls farm vehicle, pinning it against a post. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Damage to a farm caused by an April, 1978 Newkirk, Oklahoma tornado. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).

Waring, George E., Jr. Waring's Book of the Farm. Philadelphia: Port & Coates, 1877. Credit: USDA.

Tom Bennet discussing conservation farm plan with third generation dryland wheat farmer from Gilliam County, Oregon. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Farm
 

"Mangoe Farm" by Carlos A
Commentary: "Well this is a farm i took this coz well it looks likeit never ends."
"Abandoned Farm Kerry" by James Moore
Commentary: "Came upon this scene whilst driving in Kerry. I left the out of focus steering wheel in 'cos I like seeing things included that provide information about a photo. But you could always crop it or remove it any number of ways.(Please let me know if you use"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Farm".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Barnyard; animal farm.Baa; lamb; sheep; farm.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Farm

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The descent was there so precipitous that the English artillery did not see the farm below them at the bottom of the valley, the centre of the combat

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Some a these farm boys is sneaky

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Farm

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You cannot get hantavirus from farm animals, such as cows, chickens or sheep, or from insects, such as mosquitoes. (references)

After you visit a farm or other area with animals, have someone who is not immunocompromised clean your shoes, or wear disposable gloves if you clean them yourself. (references)

Making food safe in the first place is a major effort, involving the farm and fishery, the production plant or factory, and many other points from the farm to the table. (references)

Business

This backing has led to success in many local wind farm projects. (references)

The sales of three and four-wheel farm oriented vehicles were steady in recent years. (references)

China’s farm produce lacks the competitive power necessary to survive in the global market. (references)

Children

Yemen

Education for females is not encouraged in some tribal areas, where girls often are kept at home to help their mothers with childcare, housework, and farm work. (references)

Ghana

During that time, she helps with the upkeep of the shrine, which may include working on the shrine's farm, drawing water, and performing other agricultural or household labor. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

The informal labor sectors are not regulated under current labor laws, so domestics, most non-industrial farm laborers and those who work in the country's vast network of street shops and restaurants remain outside most government protection. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

The farm occupiers reportedly accused Mathuthu of reporting critically on the government-sponsored land resettlement program. (references)

Zimbabwe

In most cases, the ZANU-PF supporters were farm squatters who ordered the farm workers to leave so that they could plant their own crops on the property. (references)

Zimbabwe

On August 27, ruling party supporters beat Daily News reporter Mduduzi Mathuthu with wooden clubs when he visited a farm 31 miles from Bulawayo to report on its occupation by war veterans. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Most farms are small, with the average farm only 7 hectares. (references)

Nicaragua

HELECHOS DE NICARAGUA, S.A., fern farm with U.S. and Nicaraguan capital. (references)

Spain

The net result was an increase of 1.1 percent of the total farm income for the year 2000. (references)

Human Rights

Belize

A job-training program at a citrus farm employs 44 inmates. (references)

Zimbabwe

ZANU-PF members forcibly evicted farm workers from their houses. (references)

Zimbabwe

Intimidation and work stoppages occurred daily for commercial farmers and farm workers. (references)

Indigenous People

Paraguay

In June the Government executed a court order and dislodged farm workers who took over the lands of the Mbya indigenous group in 1994. The Mbya had camped in front of the Congress for the last 2 years both in protest and for lack of a place to live. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

In 1974 a pig farm was built on the site of the camp; both Roma and the Human Rights Commission have called for its removal. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

Agricultural and Wood Products: Japan is the largest export market for U.S. farm and wood products. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

For example, there were reports that farm workers of non-Zimbabwean heritage were threatened with deportation if they voted against the ruling party. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made available a regional GSM-102 export credit guarantee program to encourage imports of U.S. farm products. (references)

Switzerland

The marketing of many domestic farm products, and of competing imports, is controlled by cartel-like organizations of producers, wholesalers, processors, and retailers. (references)

Travel

Chad

The lake is home to the Buduma people who primarily fish the lake and to the Kotoko people who raise live stock and farm the lake region. (references)

Women

South Africa

Rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment of black female farmworkers by farm owners, managers, and by other farmworkers was common. (references)

Mali

Women often live under harsh conditions, especially in rural areas, where they perform difficult farm work and do most of the childrearing. (references)

Worker Rights

Namibia

Public servants, farm workers, and domestic employees also have this right. (references)

Portugal

Increasingly children work in family businesses, especially in rural farm work. (references)

United Arab Emirates

A farm worker in Al-Ain died after being buried alive in sand while digging a well. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait. Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments -- his feet. Thompson Johnson

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Farm

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

All that was produced from the Tom Daschle-led Senate was a bloated farm bill with redundant disaster relief in it and campaign finance reform.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Farm

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Farm income dropped by one-half.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Today it is feeding one out of every four school age children in Latin America an extra food ration from our farm surplus.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Average farm income is higher than ever.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Also, I ask, for the sake of future generations, that we preserve the family farm and family-owned small business.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981What's best for the farmers, the farm families, in the long run is also best for the consumers of our country.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Our farm program costs have quadrupled in recent years.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001A hundred years ago we moved from farm to factory.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Farm

"Farm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.89% of the time. "Farm" is used about 6,309 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)81.89%5,1671,894
Noun (proper)17.81%1,1246,783
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.19%12101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)0.09%6143,867
Unclassified Items0.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6,309N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Farm

The following table summarizes the usage of "farm" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FarmLast name10085,283
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Farm

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "farm".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
MigronN/ABiblical

Farm

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Farm

CountryNameCountryName
Belgium

Sapec SA distributes farm products

Hong Kong

Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd

Japan

Akikawa Foods & Farm Co., Ltd.

Poland

Farm Food S.A.

USA

Farm Family Holdings, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Farm

Expressions using "farm": baby farm Brownsboro Farm buy the farm cattle farm chicken farm collective farm Community farm price dairy farm disk farm EC farm price factory farm Fancy Farm farm animal farm bill farm boy farm building farm cheese farm club farm credit farm duty farm economics farm girl farm hand farm holidays farm horse farm income farm irrigation preparations farm job farm laborer farm labourer farm land farm lass farm loan farm machine farm offices farm out farm owner farm policy farm price farm produce farm products farm property farm rent farm saved seed farm subsidies farm suspected of being infected farm team farm worker farm yard Fee farm Fee farm rent fish farm fruit farm funny farm Home farm individual farm infected farm link farm Meadowbrook Farm milk farm mixed farm ostrich farm oyster farm pig farm Pleasant Run Farm poultry farm Prairie Farm prison farm processor farm Ridge Farm sewage farm small farm state farm stock farm stud farm tank farm To farm let To let to farm tree farm truck farm unavoidable farm losses. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "farm": farm-animal, farm-based, farm-boy, farm-buildings, farm-built, farm-butter-yellow, farm-cart, farm-centred, farm-child, farm-ers, farm-estate, farm-estates, farm-gate, farm-girl, farm-hand, farm-hands, farm-holdings, farm-horse, farm-horses, farm-house, farm-household, farm-houses, farm-in, farm-intensive, farm-labourer, farm-labourers, farm-lad, farm-land, farm-level, farm-owners, farm-raised, farm-reform, farm-related, farm-safety, farm-school, farm-servant, farm-size, farm-smoked, farm-state, farm-stead, farm-strip, farm-support, farm-touns, farm-trade, farm-type, farm-waste, farm-wives, Farm-woodchester, farm-work, farm-worker, farm-workers, farm-yard.

Ending with "farm": non-farm, off-farm, on-farm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Farm

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

farm

5,632

grant farm

429

state farm insurance

4,750

used farm equipment

416

state farm

4,588

pepperidge farm

411

knotts berry farm

2,874

phat farm shoes

398

farm animal

2,124

white flower farm

395

farm equipment

1,813

farm supply

365

farm bureau

1,695

catskill game farm

314

phat farm

1,551

state farm bank

314

farm and fleet

1,462

farm land

275

farm girl

1,103

meadowbrook farm

267

alien ant farm

1,062

state farm auto insurance

245

farm tractor

960

farm fencing

245

horse farm

862

blackberry farm

236

farm for sale

741

blains farm fleet

227

ant farm

497

used farm tractor

227

farm bureau insurance

487

state farm ins

222

farm toy

485

farm house

220

farm fence

470

worm farm

219

mill fleet farm

464

farm aid

211

hickory farm

443

farm picture

192
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Farm

Language Translations for "farm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

plaas (estate, lay down, locate, place, property, put, put down, ranch), boereplaas (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

fermë (bowery, ranch, steading), përjashtim nga taksat, merrem me bujqësi, marr tokë me qira, kultivoj (cultivate, grow, rear), jap tokë me qira, bujqësor (agrarian, agricultural, rural). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فلح (cultivate, succeed, till), ‏مزرعة (grange, ground, manor, plantation, ranch), ‏حقل (byway, deposit, domain, field, orchard, realm, region, tract), ‏حرث (cultivate, dig, furrow, plough, ploughing, plow, stave, till), ‏عمل بالزراعة, ‏إقطاعة مقطعة بالإلزام, ‏إشتغل بالزراعة. (various references)

   

Basque

  

baserri (country). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ферма (bowery, girder, hacienda, homestead, location, steading), гледам деца срещу заплащане, вземам под аренда, обработвам (arrange, belabor, belabour, cultivate, cure, curry, husband, labor, labour, plough, process, retrieve, till, tool, work, work up), занимавам се със земеделие, давам приход на собственика, давам под аренда. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Eristalis tenax, village), 農場 , (field), (field), (village), 农场. (various references)

   

Czech

  

farma (ranch). (various references)

   

Danish

  

bondegård (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pachten (lease), pacht, landgoed (estate, property, ranch), landbouwbedrijf (agricultural holding, agricultural undertaking, farmstead), in pacht hebben (lease), grote boerderij (estate, manor), goed (agreed, clothes, clothing, correct, estate, exact, fine, good, nice, OK, okay, possession, proper, property, ranch, right, very good, well), boerderij (estate, property, ranch), boerderý (estate, property, ranch), bezitting (estate, possession, property, ranch), bedrijf (certificate, document, enterprise, profession), agrarisch (agrarian, agricultural, farm-). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

farmo, farmi (lease), bieno (estate, property, ranch), agrara (agricultural). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

bóndagarður (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maatila (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

French

  

domaine, affermer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

pleats (estate, property, ranch), boupleats (estate, property, ranch), boerepleats (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

German

  

bauernhof (estate, farmstead, property, ranch), gut (all right, belongings, beneficial, capable, domain, efficiently, estate, fine, freight, gear, good, goods, handsomely, holding, item, keen, manor, material, nice, nicely, o.k., okay, possession, property, quiet, ranch, rigging, safely, sharp, solid, that's good, understood, well), farm (grange, ranch, station). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγρόκτημα (farmstead, hacienda). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משק (administration, economy, farmstead, household, possession, settlement), לנהל משק (keep house), חוה (farmstead, ranch), אחוזה (estate, manor, tenement), אדמה (earth, ground, land, soil). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tanya (bowery, den, farm-stead, grange, haunt, homestead, lie, nest, ranch), gazdaság (economy, estate, farmland, property, ranch), farm (grange, ranch). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

stórbýli (estate, property, ranch), búgarður (estate, property, ranch), (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Irish

  

feirm (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fattoria (estate, farmhouse, farmstead, Grange, homestead, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

農場 , 農場 , 養殖場 (nursery), 牧場 (grazing land, meadow, pasture land), 田畝 (paddy field), 田圃 (paddy field), 田ぼ (paddy field), フーゼル油 (far, Far East, farce, farm stay, fast, fast back, fast break, fast food, fiber, fiberboard, fiberglass, fiberscope, fibre, fight, fight money, fighter, fighting spirit, file, filename, filesystem, filing system, final, final set, finance, fire, fire alarm, fire insurance, fire storm, fireman, fireproof, firewall, firm, firm banking, firmware, first, first impression, first lady, first run, first-class, first-name, five-star, food, food processor, Fourier, fur, fur coat, furniture, fusel oil, hood, hoop, pharmacy, purse, whodunit), 作場 (workshop). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たんぼ (dawn and dusk, morn and eve, paddy field), ファーム (firm), まきば (grazing land, meadow, pasture land), ぼくじょう (grazing land, meadow, pasture land), さくば (workshop), のうじょう, でんぽ (paddy field), ようしょくじょう (nursery). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

농장. (various references)

   

Manx

  

state-hallooin, gowaltys (rented agricultural land, smallholding), gerinagh (following the plough), balley hallooin. (various references)

   

Maori

  

paamu. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

gård (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

bòria. (various references)

   

Papago

  

oithag. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

agrario (agrarian, agricultural, farm-). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armfay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

granja (estate, fowl run, grange, property, ranch), fazenda (cloth, commodity, estate, hacienda, material, merchandise, plantation, property, ranch, wares, wooden cloth). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fermã ţãrãneascã, fermã (Grange, homestead), lucra (bungle, cultivate, do, function, labor, labour, operate, run, till, toil, work), lua pãmânt în arendã, gospodãrie (economy, establishment, Grange, household, housekeeping, housewifery, house-work, husbandry), educa copii contra platã, da pãmânt în arendã, cultiva pãmântul (husband, work), crescãtorie (stockfarm). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ферма (estate, girder, location, ostrich-farm, property, ranch, ranchland, stead, steading, truss). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

feirm (a farm), treabhachas (arable farm, husbandry), sgalag (a servant, a workman, farm-servant), Pit- (prefix in farm and townland names in Pictland), claidheag (the last handful of corn cut on the farm). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

polasa. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

farma (bowery, grange, homestead, location), salaš (bowery, messuage), obraditi (labor, labour, process). (various references)

   

Shona

  

purazi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

granja (estate, Grange, homestead, property, ranch), finca (estate, land, manor, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

li-púlasi. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bondgård (estate, farmhouse, farmstead, property, ranch), lantgård (Barton, Grange). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

kabukirán (estate, property, ranch), búkid (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำนา. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yetiştirmek (breed, bring up, coach, cradle, cultivate, discipline, educate, groom, grow, nurture, produce, raise, rear, rush, school, train, turn out), rehabilitasyon merkezi (half-way house), kiraya vermek (farm out, hire out, job, lease out, let, let out, let out on hire, rent), işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, hammer, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, penetrate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, treat, work), ekip biçmek (cultivate), çiftlik evi (farm-house), çiftlik (bowery, duality, farmstead, hacienda, ranch), çiftçilik yapmak (follow the plough, follow the plow). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

ferma (r). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розсадник (arboretum, hotbed, nursery), ферма (bowery, homestead, onstead, stead), займатися сільським господарством (ranch). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trại (camp, grange), trang trại (farmstead, steading). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

fferm (estate, property, ranch), ffarmio, ffarm, tyddyn (holding), hafod (summer dwelling), amaethu (cultivate, till). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

ipulazi (estate, property, ranch), ilipulazi (estate, property, ranch). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Farm

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ager, ager (agri), agri, agris, agro, agrorum, agros, agrum, colonia, coloniam, firmare, funde, fundis, fundo, fundum, praedia, praedium, rura, villa, villae, villam, villas, villis. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

firma. (various references)

Old French900-1400

ferme. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Farm

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 22, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOi de amelhsanteV aphlqon o men eiV ton idion agron o de eiV thn emporian autou
Latin405VulgateIlli autem neglexerunt et abierunt alius in villam suam alius vero ad negotiationem suam
Old English990West SaxonÐa forgemden hyo þæt. & fyrden sumto hys tune. sum to hys mangunge.
Middle English1395WyclifBut thei dispisiden, and wenten forth, oon in to his toun, anothir to his marchaundise. But othere helden his seruauntis, and turmentiden hem, and slowen.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBut they made light of it and went their wayes: one to his ferme place another about his marchaundise
Jacobean English1611King JamesBut they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Victorian English1833WebsterBut they made light of it, and went, one to his farm, another to his merchandise.
Basic English1964OgdenBut they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Farm

LanguageMatthew Chapter 22, Verse 5
CebuanoApan ang mga dinapit wala lang manumbaling niini ug nanglakaw hinoon sila, usa paingon sa iyang uma, ug usa paingon sa iyang patigayon,
Croatian"Ali oni ne mareæi odoše - jedan na svoju njivu, drugi za svojom trgovinom.
DanishMen de brøde sig ikke derom og gik hen, den ene på sin Mark, den anden til sit Købmandsskab;
DutchMaar zij, zulks niet achtende, zijn heengegaan, deze tot zijn akker, gene tot zijn koopmanschap.
FinnishMutta he eivät siitä välittäneet, vaan menivät pois, mikä pellolleen, mikä kaupoilleen;
FrenchMais, sans s`inquiéter de l`invitation, ils s`en allèrent, celui-ci à son champ, celui-là à son trafic;
GermanAber sie verachteten das und gingen hin, einer auf seinen Acker, der andere zu seiner Hantierung;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariTetapi tamu-tamu yang diundang itu tidak menghiraukannya. Mereka pergi ke pekerjaannya masing-masing--yang seorang ke ladangnya, yang lainnya ke perusahaannya;
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTetapi tiada juga mereka itu peduli serta pergi, seorang ke ladangnya, dan seorang ke perniagaannya.
ItalianMa costoro non se ne curarono e andarono chi al proprio campo, chi ai propri affari;
Manx GaelicAgh hoie adsyn beg jeh as hie ad rhymboo, fer gys e state-hallooin, as fer elley gys e varchantys
MaoriOtira i paopaongia e ratou, haere ana ko tetahi ki tana mara, ko tetahi ki tana hokohoko.
NorwegianMen de brydde sig ikke om det og gikk sin vei, den ene til sin aker, den annen til sitt kjøbmannskap;
RumanianDar ei, fqrq sq le pese de poftirea lui, au plecat: unul la holda lui, wi altul la negustoria lui.
RussianоП ПОЙ, РТЕОЕВТЕЗЫЙ ФП, РПЫМЙ, ЛФП ОБ РПМЕ УЧПЕ, Б ЛФП ОБ ФПТЗПЧМА УЧПА;
ShuarTámaitiat Nú ipiaamusha nakitrarmai. Chikichik ni nunken wemai. Chikichcha Kuítian suruktinian wemai.
SpanishPero ellos no le hicieron caso y se fueron, uno a su campo, otro a su negocio;
SwahiliLakini wao hawakujali, wakaenda zao; mmoja shambani kwake, mwingine kwenye shughuli zake,
SwedishMen de aktade icke därpå, utan gingo bort, den ene till sitt jordagods, den andre till sin köpenskap.
UmaAga hawe'ea to rakio' toera uma mposaile' pekio' toe. Hore-hore hilou hi pobagoa-ra moto-ra. Ria-ra to hilou hi bonea-ra, ria-ra to hilou hi bago-ra ntani' -na.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Farm

Derivations

Words beginning with "farm": farmable, farmed, farmer, farmerette, farmerettes, farmers, farmhand, farmhands, farmhouse, farmhouses, farming, farmings, farmland, farmlands, farms, farmstead, farmsteads, farmwife, farmwives, farmwork, farmworker, farmworkers, farmworks, farmyard, farmyards. (additional references)

Words ending with "farm": birdfarm, nonfarm, superfarm. (additional references)

Words containing "farm": birdfarms, nonfarmer, nonfarmers, superfarms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Farm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afarm, aferm, afm, Afrem, afrum, Faam, faar, fagr, Fahmi, Fahmy, Fahr, faim, fairn, fajr, fam, famc, famg, famt, famv, faq, fara, farb, farc, farem, Faremo, farg, fari, fark, Farme, farmi, farmm, Farn, farr, farum, farx, fary, Fatma, faum, fearn, ferm, ferme, Ficm, fimm, fimr, firmi, firmy, firn, frah, Frahm, fraim, fraj, fram, Framp, fran, fraom, fraum, frm, furam, jarm, larm, Ofarim, yarm. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Farm"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "farm" (pronounced fÄ"rm)
4f Ä" r mnonfarm.
3-Ä" r malarm, arm, charm, disarm, forearm, harm, rearm, unarm, underarm.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Farm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-m-r"

-1 letter: arf, arm, far, mar, ram.

-2 letters: am, ar, fa, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-m-r"
 

+1 letter: farms, foram, frame.

 

+2 letters: affirm, armful, farmed, farmer, femora, ferbam, firman, flamer, foamer, forams, formal, format, framed, framer, frames, fulmar, maftir, ramify.

 

+3 letters: aciform, affirms, aliform, armfuls, armsful, ausform, chamfer, defamer, earmuff, enframe, farmers, farming, femoral, ferbams, fermata, fermate, fibroma, fimbria, finmark, firearm, fireman, firmans, flamers, flamier, foamers, foamier, foramen, forearm, foreman, formals, formant, formate, formats, formula, fraenum, framers, framing, freeman, frogman, fromage, fulmars, fumaric, harmful, maftirs, nonfarm, offramp, reframe, turfman, wolfram.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Spoken
13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Derived from
17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms
25. Derivations
26. Rhymes
27. Anagrams
28. Bibliography


  

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