an area of land devoted to growing crops or raising domestic animals such as cattle and sheep and worked or managed as a single unit
a group of buildings associated with a farm, esp a farmhouse
Milk and eggs can be bought at the farm
something resembling a farm, esp in housing a large number of individuals under farm-like conditions
a mink farm
an area of water used to breed or produce fish, shellfish, etc commercially
a fish farm
a place for the processing or storage of something
a sewage farm
buy the farm
NAmer, informal to die, esp suddenly or violently
[orig US Air Force slang with reference to pilots killed in action. ‘Buying the farm’ may be symbolic of retirement (as a metaphor for death); or the reference may be to the government recompensing farmers on whose land military aircraft crashed.][Middle English ferme rent, lease, via Old French from medieval Latin firma fixed payment, ultimately from firmus firm1]