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  • 51farm — farm1 W2S3 [fa:m US fa:rm] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: ferme rent, lease , from Latin firmus firm, fixed ] 1.) an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals ▪ a 300 hectare farm ▪ farm workers ▪ farm animal …

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  • 52farm — farmable, adj. /fahrm/, n. 1. a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood. 2. land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster… …

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  • 53farm — 1 noun (C) 1 an area of land, used for growing crops or keeping animals : live/ work on a farm: Joe had worked on the farm all his life. | chicken/sheep/pig etc farm: He runs a pig farm in Lincolnshire. 2 the main house on a farm where the farmer …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 54farm — [[t]fɑrm[/t]] n. 1) agr. a tract of land, usu. with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood 2) agr. land or water devoted to the raising of animals, fish, plants, etc.: a pig farm; an oyster… …

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  • 55house — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 building that is made for one family to live in ADJECTIVE ▪ beautiful, comfortable, elegant, fancy (esp. AmE), fine, grand, handsome, lovely, luxurious …

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  • 56farm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. ranch, rancho, plantation, farmstead, grange. See abode. v. cultivate, till. See agriculture. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. plantation, ranch, homestead, field, grange, pasture, meadow, grassland, truck… …

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  • 57house — Synonyms and related words: Aktiengesellschaft, Dymaxion house, Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, White House, abbey, abode, accommodate, adobe house, affiliation, agency, aktiebolag, amphitheater, ancestry, animal kingdom,… …

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  • 58House of George Sand — The House of French writer George Sand, (1804 1876), is located in the village of Nohant, in the Indre Departement of France. It was purchased by the French state in 1952, and has been preserved as it was when Sand wrote many of her books there… …

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  • 59farm out — PHRASAL VERB If you say that someone farms out work, especially work that you would normally expect them to do themselves, you mean that they give it to other people to do. [V n P to n] The move is consistent with a trend for corporate legal… …

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  • 60House of bondage — Land Land, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ] 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English