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Definition of Farm

Farm The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To take at a certain rent or rate. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. Related Definitions: Agricultural, Agriculture, An, And, Another, Any, As, At, Business, By, Certain, Collection, Condition, Country, Cultivate, Cultivation, Devote, Devoted, District, Engage, Equivalent, Estate, Farm, Farmed, Farmer, For, Give, Goods, Government, Held, In, It, Labor, Land, Lease, Leased, Leasehold, Let, Management, Of, On, Or, Originally, Out, Owner, Paid, Part, Particular, Payment, Percentage, Proceeds, Purpose, Rate, Receiving, Rent, Reservation, Return, Revenue, Silk, Soil, Sugar, Take, Tenant, Tenure, Term, The, Till, Tilling, To, Tract, Under, Up, Use, What, Yield

Farm Quotations I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. James E. Jones When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off." Stephen King I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. Henry David Thoreau Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. Charles Dickens

Farm Translations farm in Afrikaans is plaas, boereplaas farm in Dutch is agrarisch farm in Finnish is vuokrata maata, vuokrasopimus, maatila farm in French is domaine, affermer, afferment, affermez, affermons farm in German is Farm, Bauernhof farm in Italian is fattoria farm in Latin is ager (agri) farm in Portuguese is granja, fazenda farm in Spanish is agrario, granja, finca

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