farm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːm/
enpr: färm
ipa: /fɑɹm/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: farms
form: feorm
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ferme, farme (“rent, revenue, produce, factor, stewardship, meal, feast”), influenced by Anglo-Norman ferme (“rent, lease, farm”), from Medieval Latin ferma, firma. There is debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”), or from Latin firmus (“solid, secure”), from Proto-Italic *fermos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-mo-s (“holding”), from the root *dʰer- (“to hold”). If the former etymology is correct, the term is related to Old English feorh (“life, spirit”), Icelandic fjör (“life, vitality, vigour, animation”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus, “the world”). Compare also Old English feormehām (“farm”), feormere (“purveyor, supplier, grocer”). Cognate with Scots ferm (“rent, farm”).
Senses: glosses: A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
glosses: A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
examples: text: antenna farm; fuel farm; solar farm; wind farm
text: The skies are threatening to pour on the Apple solar farm but as the woman in-charge of the company’s environmental initiatives points out: the panels are still putting out some power. Apple is still greening its act.
ref: 2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures.
examples: text: a render farm
text: a server farm
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of coordinated servers.
glosses: Food; provisions; a meal.
glosses: A banquet; feast.
examples: text: If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill.
ref: 1642, J. Perkins, transl., Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:
text: All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase.
ref: 1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814:
text: The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease.
ref: 1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320:
glosses: A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
examples: text: He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire.
ref: 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:
glosses: A fixed yearly sum accepted from a person as a composition for taxes or other moneys which he is empowered to collect; also, a fixed charge imposed on a town, county, etc., in respect of a tax or taxes to be collected within its limits.
examples: text: The first farm of postal income was made in 1672.
ref: 1885, Edwards in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 580
glosses: The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
examples: text: They despair of a suppression of the Farm.
ref: 1786, T. Jefferson, Writings (1859) I. 568:
glosses: The body of farmers of public revenues.
examples: text: It is a great willfullnes in any such Land-lord to refuse to make any longer farmes unto their Tennants.
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
text: Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.
ref: 1647, N. Bacon, Hist. Disc. Govt. 75:
text: The words demise, lease, and to farm let, are the proper ones to constitute a lease.
ref: 1818, W. Cruise, Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) IV. 68:
glosses: The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.
examples: text: Oliver’s sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A baby farm.
Derived terms: Allenfarm
ant farm
baby farm
baby-farm
bee farm
beefarm
bet the farm
bird farm
body farm
bot farm
brain farm
buy the farm
cat farm
Chalk Farm
click farm
content farm
county farm
cube farm
cubicle farm
dairy farm
factory farm
farm animal
farm business tenancy
farm cat
farm club
farm girl
farm hand
farm holder
farm house
farm land
farm league
farm market
farm-mate
farm nigger
farm owner
farm runoff
farm shop
farm show
farm sim
farm stall
farm stand
farm team
farm the strike
farm-to-fork
farm-to-table
farm upstate
farm work
farm worker
fat farm
fish farm
funny farm
fur farm
give away the farm
glebe farm
glebe-farm
gold farm
granny farm
health farm
home farm
honor farm
kitten farm
link farm
missile farm
oyster farm
Pepperidge Farm remembers
pig farm
pizza farm
poor farm
prison farm
rage farm
ribbon farm
server farm
SIM farm
store farm
stud farm
tank farm
The Farm
tree farm
troll farm
truck farm
turret farm
wiki farm
wind farm
work farm
working farm