farming
Syllables: farm·ingUK/ˈfɑːmɪŋ//ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/
farming noun: the business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc. Also the present participle and gerund of farm.
Noun
farming (countable and uncountable, plural farmings)
- The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.
- Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1
- Farming was among the earliest of civilized man's occupations, [...]1945 April 18, American Historical Association, United States Armed Forces Institute, Shall I Take Up Farming? (GI Roundtable), number 35, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2
- Synonyms:
- soil
- A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.
- We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.1692, John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata
- After Agricultural Foundation Law was enacted in 1961, the expansion of scale of farm business, the improvement of agricultural foundation, the spread of diversified farming with livestock, the mechanization and the rationalization of farming have accelerated viable farmings.1986, Science reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba., page 24
Adjective
farming (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the agricultural business.
- Raising livestock or fish.
Also used as
farming is also the present participle and gerund of farm.
farming meaning in Urdu and Nepali
farming in Urdu
- کھیتی باڑی, کاشت کاری
farming in Nepali
- खेती-बाड़ी
Examples of farming in a sentence
- Nauru imports foods from Australia because phosphate mining destroyed land for farming.
- This invention was a revelation for farming throughout the region, where it doubled crop yields.
- The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.
Synonyms of farming
Forms of farming
| plural | farmings |
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Origin of farming
From farm + -ing.
Words formed from farming
- antifarming
- aquafarming
- aura farming
- baby farming
- bee farming
- biofarming
- dairy farming
- data farming
- dirt farming
- electrofarming
- factory farming
- farming sim
- Farmington
- firestick farming
- fish farming
- gold farming
- granny farming
- hoe-farming
- intensive animal farming
- intensive farming
- landfarming
- microfarming
- mixed farming
- nonfarming
- organic farming
- proxy farming
- refarming
- sharefarming
- skyfarming
- smart farming
- snow farming
- strip farming
- subsistence farming
- tax farming
- truck farming
- unfarming
- vertical farming
- windfarming
Phrases with farming
Words that rhyme with farming
Questions about farming
- What does farming mean?
- Farming means the business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.
- What is farming in Urdu?
- Farming in Urdu is کھیتی باڑی, کاشت کاری. See Farming meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is farming?
- Farming can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce farming?
- Farming is pronounced /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of farming?
- The plural of farming is farmings.
Words near farming in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: farming (page history and authors); farming (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); farming (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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