'Farm' definitions:

Definition of 'farm'

From: WordNet
noun
Workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
verb
Be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California"
verb
Collect fees or profits
verb
Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm, produce]

Definition of 'Farm'

From: GCIDE
  • Farm \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.]
  • 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: 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]
  • 5. 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. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (O. Eng. Law) 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. --State Trials (1196). [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Farm'

From: GCIDE
  • Farm \Farm\, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Farm'

From: GCIDE
  • Farm \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]
  • 1. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To take at a certain rent or rate. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Farm'

From: Easton
  • Farm (Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS �(n/a); TITHE.)

Synonyms of 'farm'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Farm'