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noun

ˈfärm How to pronounce farm (audio)
Definition of farmnext
as in ranch
a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock a farm that has been in the same family for five generations

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verb

as in to cultivate
to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year

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Recent Examples of farm
Noun
And what’s dramatic about this is that having grown up on a remote mountain farm in the 1940s, away from almost any remnant of civilization, Mikey has zero context for his erotic yearnings. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 The mascots have since been raised and cared for by the Stokes family, with the current Tusk residing at the family farm near Dardanelle. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
His father eventually got a loan to start his own farm in Yolo County, and the Yeungs haven’t stopped farming since. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026 The vineyard has been farmed organically since 1998 and biodynamically since 2000. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for farm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for farm
  1. ranch
  2. cultivate
  3. plant
  4. harvest
  5. till
Noun
  • This summer, Rodgers put together a team-bonding trip to a ranch out west for four days.
    — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • McKinney, who founded the network-consulting and security-services provider International Network Services, originally snapped up the Sonoma ranch in 2014 for just $12 million.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of ranch
Verb
  • Wickersham spent more than a year writing his book and cultivated the background from a sportswriting life spent observing QBs.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The promotion and publicity that larger news organizations can bring to bear is just one consideration, as is an ability to put new content directly in front of a large audience that has already been cultivated.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of cultivate
Verb
  • Popular committees stored food for curfews, set up clinics, and planted backyard gardens (until Israel outlawed them in 1988).
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The Buffalo Bills planted new grass at Highmark Stadium 10 months ago.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of plant
Verb
  • Earlier attempts to harvest solar energy underwater stalled out in shallow waters under two meters deep, where sunlight is still plentiful but practical applications are scarce.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The plan is to harvest kelp and process it in the port city of Ventura about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
    — Amy Taxin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of harvest
Verb
  • The company had sent heavy machinery to the site, an undeveloped valley in northeast Independence, a month earlier to start tilling the earth and digging runoff ponds.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Dash, 2026, the forty-seven-minute, two-channel essay-film at the project’s core, is filled with quiet, almost meditative scenes of machines tilling the land that initially conjure a faux-pastoral aesthetic register.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
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