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farm house

farm house is the alternative 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 alternative form of?
Farm house is the alternative form of farmhouse.

Words near farm house in the dictionary

  1. farm girls
  2. farm hand
  3. farm hands
  4. farm holder
  5. farm holders
  6. farm house
  7. farm houses
  8. farm land
  9. farm lands
  10. farm league
  11. farm leagues

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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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