How do you use the word "farm" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "farm" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "farm": Last summer, I worked part time on the farm. I delighted in going to his farm during the summer vacation.

Farm Meaning

/ˈfɑːm/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

nounA tract of land held on lease for the purpose of cultivation.

Sentence Examples

Last summer, I worked part time on the farm.

I delighted in going to his farm during the summer vacation.

Their main business is the conversion of farm buildings into family homes.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

grow raise produce

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The family used the old tractor to plow the ____ before planting corn.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

They moved to a small ____ in the countryside to raise chickens and grow their own organic vegetables.

Word Origin & History

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 acquired 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”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:

"If a man be bounden unto 1.s. in 100.l.£ to grant unto him the rent and farme of such a Mill." — 1642, J. Perkins, transl., Profitable Bk. (new ed.) xi. §751. 329:

"All..Tythings shall stand at the old Farm, without any Increase." — 1700, J. Tyrrell, Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 814:

"The most usual and customary feorm or rent..must be reserved yearly on such lease." — 1767, W. Blackstone, Comm. Laws Eng. II. 320:

"He [the Sheriff] paid into the Exchequer the fixed yearly sum which formed the farm of the shire." — 1876, E. A. Freeman, Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 439:

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