farm

English

/fɑːɹm/, /fɑːm/

noun
Definitions
  • A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.
  • A tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.
  • (usually) A location used for an industrial purpose, having many similar structures
  • (computing) A group of coordinated servers.
  • (obsolete) Food; provisions; a meal.
  • (obsolete) A banquet; feast.
  • (obsolete) A fixed yearly amount (food, provisions, money, etc.) payable as rent or tax.
  • (historical) 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.
  • (historical) The letting-out of public revenue to a ‘farmer’; the privilege of farming a tax or taxes.
  • The body of farmers of public revenues.
  • The condition of being let at a fixed rent; lease; a lease.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ferme derived from ferme (lease, farm, rent) derived from Latin ferma derived from Old English feorm (supplies, rent, feast, provision, food, provisions, subsistence, tribute, entertainment) derived from Proto-Germanic *fermō (means of living, subsistence), *ferhwō (body, life force, being) derived from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (tree, force, strength, life, body, encompass, world, fir, oak, surround).

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Proto-Indo-European

*perkʷ-

Gloss

tree, force, strength, life, body, encompass, world, fir, oak, surround

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Kanji

木, 樹

Emoji
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