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ferms

ferms is the plural of ferm.

Meaning of ferm

Noun

ferm (countable and uncountable, plural ferms)

  1. (obsolete) rent for a farm
    • He let his land to ferm.
  2. (obsolete) a farm
  3. (obsolete) an abode or place of residence
    • Out of her fleshly ferme fled to the place of paine..1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about ferms

What is ferms the plural of?
Ferms is the plural of ferm.

Words near ferms in the dictionary

  1. Fermo
  2. Fermont
  3. Fermor
  4. fermorite
  5. Fermoy
  6. ferms
  7. fern
  8. fern allies
  9. fern ally
  10. fern bar
  11. fern bars

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