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farm-house

farm-house is the dated form of farmhouse.

Meaning of farmhouse

Noun

farmhouse (plural farmhouses)

  1. (traditionally and archetypally) A farmer's residence.
    • No farm-house goes on well without there is a Nis in it, and well is it for the maids and the men when they are in favour with him.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 222
  2. A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.
    • Since the farm's redevelopment into mixed commercial and residential space, the farmhouse has served as a community center.

Forms of farm-house

pluralfarm-houses

Questions about farm-house

What is farm-house the dated form of?
Farm-house is the dated form of farmhouse.

Words near farm-house in the dictionary

  1. farm upstate
  2. farm work
  3. farm worker
  4. farm workers
  5. farm works
  6. farm-house
  7. farm-houses
  8. farm-like
  9. farm-mate
  10. farm-mates
  11. farm-to-fork

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farm-house (page history and authors); farmhouse (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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