Meaning of farm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. real estate (typically rural and surrounding land but also urban)
2. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock
3. Broadwater Farm, an area of Tottenham, North London, England.
   UK, slang
4. A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
   countable
5. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation
6. A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
   countable
7. third-person singular present indicative
8. A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
9. A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
   countable, in-compounds, often
10. second-person singular imperative
11. A group of coordinated servers
12. A group of coordinated servers.
    countable
13. Food; provisions; a meal
14. Food; provisions; a meal.
    obsolete
15. A banquet; feast.
    obsolete
16. A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
    obsolete
17. A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
    historical
18. The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
    historical
19. The body of farmers of public revenues.
20. The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
21. A baby farm.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm”

“The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.”

“a render farm”

“a server farm”

“If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.”

“All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.”

“The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.”

“He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.”

“The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.”

“They despair of a suppression of the Farm.”

“It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.”

“Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.”

“The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.”

“Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig.”

“And before you mention the plans to fix up the Farm, let me tell you, all that regeneration talk is just about bulldozing the place and shipping us all out to God knows where.”

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