farm
workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit (Freq. 49)
- it takes several people to work the farm
• Hypernyms:
workplace, work
• Hyponyms:
chicken farm, croft, dairy, dairy farm, farmplace,
farm-place, farmstead, grange, home-farm, piggery, pig farm,
ranch, spread, cattle ranch, cattle farm, sewage farm, sheepwalk,
sheeprun, stud farm, truck farm, truck garden, vineyard, vinery
• Part Meronyms:
farmhouse, farmyard
1. be a farmer;
work as a farmer (Freq. 4)
- My son is farming in California
• Derivationally related forms:
farmer, farming
• Hypernyms:
work, do work
• Hyponyms:
ranch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. collect fees or profits
• See Also:
farm out
• Hypernyms:
collect, take in
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- The Bordeaux region produces great red wines
- They produce good ham in Parma
- We grow wheat here
- We raise hogs here
• Syn:
grow, raise, produce
• Derivationally related forms:
produce (for: produce), farmer, farming, raiser (for: raise), growth (for: grow), grower (for: grow)
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
cultivate
• Hyponyms:
carry, overproduce, keep
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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