Synonyms of farming

farming 1 of 3

noun

ˈfär-miŋ 

as in agriculture

the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock

since an ancestor settled there in the 19th century, farming has been the only occupation for six generations of the family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• agriculture
• cultivation
• gardening
• horticulture
• husbandry
• agribusiness
• culture
• tillage
• farmwork
• agronomy
• aquaculture
• pastoralism
• agroforestry
• agroecology
• monoculture
• animal husbandry
• pomology
• hydroponics
• arboriculture
• mixed farming
• sharecropping

farming

2 of 3

adjective

as in agricultural

engaged in or concerned with agriculture

years of drought had a devastating impact on the region's farming communities

Synonyms & Similar Words

• agricultural
• agrarian
• agronomic
• rural
• arable
• monocultural
• bucolic
• aquacultural
• pastoral
• country
• pastoralist
• garden
• georgic
• arboricultural
• rustic
• villatic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• urban
• industrial
• metropolitan
• nonagricultural
• industrialized
• metro

farming

3 of 3

verb

present participle of farm

as in cultivating

to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on

we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cultivating
• harvesting
• planting
• tending
• tilling
• cropping
• reaping
• hoeing
• sharecropping
• harrowing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of farming

Noun

In the primary bedroom’s sitting room, a pair of 1980s chairs by Sergio Savarese for Dialogica flank a bistro table and were purchased years ago by Jenkins, whose own family has a history in farming and ranching. — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2026

Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Guinea, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, the Minderoo Foundation, and the Green Climate Fund will support small farming businesses. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026

Adjective

Connecticut has also seen a boom in backyard growers popping up in suburban neighborhoods with micro-farming businesses becoming more popular. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026

Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 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

As more and more produce for American markets has been grown overseas in recent decades, the US government has largely outsourced safety oversight to the companies farming and selling it. — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026