farm
verb/fɑːm/
/fɑːrm/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they farm | /fɑːm/ /fɑːrm/ |
| he / she / it farms | /fɑːmz/ /fɑːrmz/ |
| past simple farmed | /fɑːmd/ /fɑːrmd/ |
| past participle farmed | /fɑːmd/ /fɑːrmd/ |
| -ing form farming | /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ /ˈfɑːrmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to use land for growing crops and/or keeping animals
- The family has farmed in Kent for over two hundred years.
- farm something They farm dairy cattle.
- He farmed 200 acres of prime arable land.
- They only buy organically farmed produce.
Extra Examples- The land has been intensively farmed.
- They farm organically now.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- heavily
- intensively
- organically
- …
- [transitive] farm something to keep fish or birds in order to produce young and sell them for food
- Salmon are farmed in net pens near coasts.
- Ostriches are farmed in South Africa and Australia.
- farmed salmon/trout
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French ferme, from medieval Latin firma ‘fixed payment’, from Latin firmare ‘fix, settle’ (in medieval Latin ‘contract for’), from firmus ‘constant, firm’; compare with firm (noun). The noun originally denoted a fixed annual amount payable as rent or tax; which later gave rise to ‘to subcontract’ (farm somebody/something out to somebody. ). The verb sense ‘grow crops or keep livestock’ dates from the early 19th cent.
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