(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is an area of land, together with the buildings on it, that is used for growing crops or raising animals, usually in order to sell them.
Farms in France are much smaller than those in the United States or even Britain.
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2.
If you ~ an area of land, you grow crops or keep animals on it.
They ~ed some of the best land in Scotland...
He has lived and ~ed in the area for 46 years.
VERB: V n, V
3.
A mink ~ or a fish ~, for example, is a place where a particular kind of animal or fish is bred and kept in large quantities in order to be sold.
...trout fresh from a local trout ~.
N-COUNT: n N