Farm

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Farm, n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See Firm, a. & n.].

•  The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.  [1913 Webster]
•  The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants."  [1913 Webster]
•  The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.  [1913 Webster]
•  Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.  [1913 Webster]

  " In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense."  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]
•  A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.  [1913 Webster]

  "The province was devided into twelve farms."  [1913 Webster]
•  A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum."  [1913 Webster]

Farm, v. t. 

•  To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.  [1913 Webster]

  "We are enforced to farm our royal realm."  [1913 Webster]
•  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; as, to farm the taxes.  [1913 Webster]

  "To farm their subjects and their duties toward these."  [1913 Webster]
•  To take at a certain rent or rate.  [1913 Webster]
•  To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.  [1913 Webster]

To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.

Farm, v. i. 

 To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Farm, n. & v.
--n.
1 an area of land and its buildings used under one management for growing crops, rearing animals, etc.
2 a place or establishment for breeding a particular type of animal, growing fruit, etc. (trout-farm; mink-farm).
3 = FARMHOUSE.
4 a place for the storage of oil or oil products.
5 = sewage farm.
--v.
1 a tr. use (land) for growing crops, rearing animals, etc. b intr. be a farmer; work on a farm.
2 tr. breed (fish etc.) commercially.
3 tr. (often foll. by out) a delegate or subcontract (work) to others. b contract (the collection of taxes) to another for a fee. c arrange for (a person, esp. a child) to be looked after by another, with payment.
4 tr. let the labour of (a person) for hire.
5 tr. contract to maintain and care for (a person, esp. a child) for a fixed sum.

Idiom

farm-hand a worker on a farm.

Derivative

farmable adj. farming n.

Etymology

ME f. OF ferme f. med.L firma fixed payment f. L firmus FIRM(1): orig. applied only to leased land

THESAURUS

Farm

Arcadian, Dymaxion house, White House, acreage, adobe house, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, agronomic, allotment, arable, arable land, barnyard, barton, be killed, breed, bucolic, building, casa, cattle ranch, charter, chicken farm, cliff dwelling, collective farm, consulate, contract, cotton plantation, countrify, country, country house, country seat, croft, crop, cultivate, culture, dacha, dairy farm, deanery, delegate, demesne, demesne farm, die, dry farm, dryfarm, dude ranch, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, factory farm, fallow, farm out, farmery, farmhold, farmhouse, farming, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fatten, feed, fruit farm, fur farm, garden, geoponic, grain farm, grange, grassland, grow, hacienda, hall, hatch, hire, hire out, holding, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, house, houseboat, job, keep, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lake dwelling, land, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, living machine, location, lodge, lowland, mains, manor farm, manor house, manse, nurture, orchard, parsonage, pastoral, pastoralize, pasture, pen, penthouse, plantation, poultry farm, prefabricated house, presidential palace, provincial, raise, ranch, ranch house, rancheria, rancho, rear, rectory, rent, rent out, roof, run, rural, rustic, rusticate, sharecrop, sheep farm, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, station, steading, stock farm, structure, subcontract, sublease, sublet, till the soil, toft, town house, truck farm, underlet, upland, vicarage

ROGET THESAURUS

Farm

Property

N property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum, ownership, proprietorship, lordship, seignority, empire, interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding, tenure, vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest, use, trust, benefit, legal estate, equitable estate, seizin, seisin, absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold, fee tail, fee simple, estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail, estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general, limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate, estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie, remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility, dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony, legacy, Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds, assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances, wealth, money, what one is worth, what one will cut up for, estate and effects, landed property, landed real estate property, realty, land, lands, tenements, hereditaments, corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments, acres, ground, acquest, messuage, toft, territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence, manor, honor, domain, demesne, farm, plantation, hacienda, allodium, fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency, arado, merestead, ranch, free lease-holds, copy lease-holds, folkland, chattels real, fixtures, plant, heirloom, easement, right of common, right of user, personal property, personal estate, personal effects, personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables, stock, stock in trade, things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia, equipage, parcels, appurtenances, impedimenta, luggage, baggage, bag and baggage, pelf, cargo, lading, rent roll, income, maul and wedges, patent, copyright, chose in action, credit, debt, one's own, landed, predial, manorial, allodial, free lease-hold, copy lease-hold, feudal, feodal, to one's credit, to one's account, to the good, to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assign.

Borrowing

VB borrow, desume, hire, rent, farm, take a lease, take a demise, take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year, hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year, adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take, raise money, take up money, raise the wind, fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul, run into debt, replevy.

Abode

N abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat, lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance, tabernacle, throne, ark, home, fatherland, country, homestead, homestall, fireside, hearth, hearth stone, chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side, harem, seraglio, zenana, household gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal domicile, native soil, native land, habitat, range, stamping ground, haunt, hangout, biosphere, environment, ecological niche, nest, nidus, snuggery, arbor, bower, lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive, covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost, nidification, kala jagah, bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation, barrack, casemate, casern, tent, building, chamber, xenodochium, tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft, cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam, pen, barn, bawn, kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre, cow house, cow shed, stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium, shippen, igloo, iglu, jacal, lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling, log cabin, log house, shack, shebang, tepee, topek, house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace, kiosk, bungalow, casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house, temple, hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal, borough, burgh, town, city, capital, metropolis, suburb, province, country, county town, county seat, courthouse, ghetto, street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews, square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister, gardens, grove, residences, block of buildings, market place, place, plaza, anchorage, roadstead, roads, dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor, quarter, parish, assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place, inn, hostel, hostelry, hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice, public house, pub, pot house, mug house, gin mill, gin palace, bar, bar room, barrel house, cabaret, chophouse, club, clubhouse, cookshop, dive, exchange, grill room, saloon, shebeen, coffee house, eating house, canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada, almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse, garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne, cage, terrarium, doghouse, pen, aviary, barn, stall, zoo, urban, metropolitan, suburban, provincial, rural, rustic, domestic, cosmopolitan, palatial, eigner Hert ist goldes Werth, even cities have their graves, ubi libertas ibi patria, home sweet home.

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.

VB cultivate, till the soil, farm, garden, sow, plant, reap, mow, cut, manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top, backset.