farmed

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adjective

ˈfärmd 

1

: grown, bred, or raised on a farm

… a specially filleted Grade-A piece of the best of the farmed North American channel catfish.

—Paul Greenberg

The breeding farms … raise the possibility that farmed birds were the source of the outbreak.

—Declan Butler

2

: used for farming : managed and cultivated as farmland

In contrast, the valley had been a farmed and peaceful enclave right up until the end—and therefore was uncontested land of the sort that might normally have remained clean in a war.

—William Langewiesche

farmed

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past tense and past participle of farm entry 2

Examples of farmed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

The titular town is a serene speck of a place in the west of Japan, near a mountain also called Nagi, a beautiful but raggedy landscape that patchworks swathes of virgin forest, farmed fields and twinkling solar panels. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026

The temperature spikes also affected wild and farmed fish in the lake, with 3,000 fish dying at one aquaculture pond. — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025

Long before Rhode Island was a state—and the idea of America even existed—the Narragansett people lived, fished, farmed, and thrived on this land. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1800, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for farmed

• alarmed
• disarmed
• unarmed
• unharmed
• armed
• charmed
• harmed