farm

UK/ˈfɑːm//ˈfɑɹm/

farm noun: a place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

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Noun

farm (plural farms)

(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
(countable) A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
(countable, in-compounds, often) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
- antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
- The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian
(countable) A group of coordinated servers.
- a render farm
- a server farm
(obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
(obsolete) A banquet; feast.
(obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
- If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.1642, J. Perkins, transl., Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329
- All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814
(historical) A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
- He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439
(historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
- The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580
The body of farmers of public revenues.
- They despair of a suppression of the Farm.1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568
The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
- It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
- Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75
(historical) A baby farm.
- Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs...1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC

Verb (1)

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

(intransitive) To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops.
(transitive) To devote (land) to farming.
(transitive) To grow (a particular crop).
To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.
- to farm the taxes
- [The East-India Company] have contrived to farm their subjects, and their duties toward these subjects, to that very Nabob, whom they themselves constantly represent as an habitual oppressor and a relentless tyrant.1783 December 1, “Speech on Mr. Fox's East-India Bill”, in The Works of R.H. Edmund Burke, volume 2, spoken by Edmund Burke, published 1855
(obsolete, transitive) To lease or let for an equivalent, e.g. land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
- We are enforced to farm our royal realm.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...
(obsolete, transitive) To take at a certain rent or rate.
- In Paris it is stated that nearly half the birth-rate of the city finds its way to nurses who farm babies in the suburbs.1886, The Fortnightly, volume 46, page 530
(Internet) To engage in grinding (repetitive activity) in a particular area or against specific enemies for a particular drop or item.
- When you hit a black pudding with an iron weapon that does at least one point of damage there is a good chance it will divide into two black puddings of the same size (but half the hit points IIRC). […] When eaten black puddings confer several intrinsics so AC [armor class] is not the only...2004, Doug Freyburger, “Pudding Farming Requires Care”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)
- The practice of gold farming is controversial within gaming communities and violates the end user licensing agreements[…]2010, Robert Alan Brookey, Hollywood Gamers, page 130
(Internet) To cultivate and/or disseminate through artificial algorithm-incentivized means.
- This type of SEO farming can be massively lucrative. Digital marketers have built an entire industry on top of credit card affiliate links, from which they then earn a generous profit.2023 January 19, Mia Sato, Vincent James, “Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine”, in The Verge
- Will AI slop farming ultimately exhaust the soil of online spaces? Will people flee the slop, tolerate it, or even welcome it? Will we ultimately come to love slop?2025 September, Kate Crawford, “Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop”, in e-flux
1. (Internet, derogatory) To act performatively or deliberately to elicit a desired response.

Verb (2)

farm (third-person singular simple present farms, present participle farming, simple past and past participle farmed)

(UK, dialectal) To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
- Farm out the stable and pigsty.

Proper noun capitalized: Farm

the Farm

(UK, slang) Broadwater Farm, an area of Tottenham, North London, England.
- And before you mention the plans to fix up the Farm, let me tell you, all that regeneration talk is just about bulldozing the place and shipping us all out to God knows where.2020, Jac Shreeves-Lee, Broadwater

farm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

farm in Hindi

place where agricultural activities take place: खेत khet, फ़ार्म fārm, फार्म phārm

farm in Tamil

place where agricultural activities take place: பண்ணை paṇṇai, வயல் vayal

farm in Marathi

place where agricultural activities take place: शेत śet, शेती śetī
computing: group of coordinated servers: फार्म phārma
to work on a farm: शेती करणे śetī karṇe

farm in Urdu

place where agricultural activities take place: کھیت khet, فارْم fārm, کاشْت kāśt, مَزْرَعَہ mazra'a

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farm in Bengali: খামার khamar, খেত khet
farm in Telugu: పొలం polaṁ
farm in Malayalam: കൃഷിഭൂമി kr̥ṣibhūmi, വിളനിലം viḷanilaṁ
farm in Kannada: ತೋಟ tōṭa, ಗದ್ದೆ gadde, ಜಮೀನು jamīnu
farm in Punjabi: ਖੇਤ khet, کھیت khet
farm in Gujarati: ફાર્મ phārma, ખેતર khetar
farm in Odia: ଫାର୍ମ phārma, ଖେତ kheta, ଖମାର khamāra
farm in Sanskrit: क्षेत्र kṣétra
farm in Sinhala: ගොවිපළ gowipaḷa
farm in Assamese: খেতি kheti
farm in Nepali: खेत khet
farm in Pashto: فارم fārm, مزرعه mazra'a
farm in Tagalog: sakahan
farm in Arabic: مَزْرَعَة mazraʕa
farm in Malay: ladang
farm in Indonesian: ladang, perkebunan
farm in Persian: کشاورزی کردن kešâvarzi kardan
farm in Thai: ฟาร์ม faam, ทุ่งนา tûng-naa, ไร่นา râi-naa
farm in Vietnamese: trang trại, nông trường
farm in Myanmar: လယ်တော laitau:, ခြံ hkram, လယ်ယာ laiya

Examples of farm in a sentence

The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68:
Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr.1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […]...
X's suspension of the Stake-linked accounts and the UK Gambling Commission's enforcement action represent the first significant consequences for clip farming.2026 February 11, Boaz Sobrado, “Inside The 'Clipping Farms' Driving Fintech's Marketing Boom”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 26...

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Synonyms of farm

bait

Forms of farm

Noun
plural	farms
alternative form	feorm
Verb
third-person singular present	farms
present participle	farming
past participle	farmed
past	farmed

Past tense of farm: farmed

Plural of farm: farms

Origin of farm

Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquired this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”); or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).

From Middle English fermen, from Anglo-Norman fermer (“to let out for a fixed payment, lease, rent”) ultimately from the same Old English source as Etymology 1. Compare Old English feormian (“to feed, supply with food, sustain”).

From Middle English fermen, from Old English feormian (“to clean, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *furbēn (“to clean, polish, buff”). Doublet of furbish.

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Questions about farm

What does farm mean?: Farm means a place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
What is farm in Hindi?: Farm in Hindi is खेत (khet), फ़ार्म (fārm), फार्म (phārm). See Farm meaning in Hindi.
How do you use farm in a sentence?: The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
What part of speech is farm?: Farm can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce farm?: Farm is pronounced /ˈfɑːm/ (UK).
What is the plural of farm?: The plural of farm is farms.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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