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farm
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- pronunciation:
- farm
- parts of speech:
- noun, verb
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
A farm is a place where people grow crops or raise animals for food or clothing. People grow crops like corn, wheat, beans, and potatoes on farms. They also raise animals like cows, sheep, and pigs.
When he's older, Marvin wants to live on a farm and learn how to grow vegetables.
- similar words:
- ranch, spread
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| definition 2: |
A farm is an area of land or water used for growing a particular crop or raising certain kinds of animals.
These fish come from a fish farm.My grandmother worked on a potato farm before she eventually moved to the United States.- similar words:
- orchard, spread
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ground |
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
farms, farming, farmed |
| definition 1: |
When you farm land, you use the land to grow things that you can sell for food or other products. People farm land to grow crops. When people farm animals, they raise animals on a farm.
The farmers had to make the area flat before they could farm the land.We farm chickens for their eggs and cows for their milk.
- synonyms:
- cultivate
- similar words:
- raise, work
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| definition 2: |
When you farm, you grow crops or raise animals. When people farm for a living, they sell their crops or animals to other people.
Ashley's grandparents farmed when they were young, but they sold the farm when they got older.- similar words:
- work
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some activities in farming |
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breed, cultivate, fertilize, grow, irrigate, mow, plant, plow, raise, shear, slaughter, weed |
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