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

The tiny farming settlement of Poilley, in Brittany, would become her home for the next eight years, and the subject of more than 50,000 intimate, often unsettling photographs. — Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

Lots of farm equipment relies on diesel — so higher diesel risks making the cost of farming, and eventually food, more expensive. — Willa Rubin, NPR, 4 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

Most were farming a token airdrop rather than playing, and when the airdrop disappointed that autumn the audience fell to 41 million by November. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Dee’s family had been farming in Michigan for generations, raising dairy cattle and growing crops. — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026