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baby-farm

baby-farm is the alternative form of baby farm.

Meaning of baby farm

Noun

baby farm (plural baby farms)

  1. (informal) An institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers.
    • But the bastard son of Fiona and Michael Duffy had been sent to a baby farm.2000, Peter Watt, Cry of the Curlew
    Synonyms:
    baby factory

Forms of baby-farm

pluralbaby-farms

Questions about baby-farm

What is baby-farm the alternative form of?
Baby-farm is the alternative form of baby farm.

Words near baby-farm in the dictionary

  1. baby-er
  2. baby-est
  3. baby-face
  4. baby-faced
  5. baby-faces
  6. baby-farm
  7. baby-farmer
  8. baby-farmers
  9. baby-farms
  10. baby-fat
  11. baby-father

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Adapted from Wiktionary: baby-farm (page history and authors); baby farm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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