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Definition of Farming
1. Noun. The practice of cultivating the land or raising stock.
Generic synonyms: Cultivation
Examples of category: Cultivation, Smut, Feed, Fertilise, Fertilize, Thrash, Thresh, Seed, Sow, Broadcast, Inseminate, Sow, Sow In, Reseed, Farm, Grow, Produce, Raise, Carry, Till, Crop, Cultivate, Work, Overcrop, Overcultivate, Plough, Plow, Turn, Ridge, Disk, Harrow, Hoe, Cultivate
Specialized synonyms: Animal Husbandry, Arboriculture, Tree Farming, Dairy Farming, Dairying, Gardening, Horticulture, Aquiculture, Hydroponics, Tank Farming, Mixed Farming, Planting, Ranching, Strip Cropping, Subsistence Farming, Truck Farming
Terms within: Tilling, Harvest, Harvest Time
Derivative terms: Agriculturist, Farm
2. Adjective. Relating to rural matters. "Farming communities"
3. Noun. Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life. "There's no work on the land any more"
Generic synonyms: Business, Job, Line, Line Of Work, Occupation
Derivative terms: Farm
Definition of Farming
1. a. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.
2. n. The business of cultivating land.
Definition of Farming
1. Noun. The business of cultivating land, raising stocks etc. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to the agricultural business. ¹
3. Adjective. Raising livestock or fish. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of farm) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Farming
1. the business of operating a farm [n -S]
Medical Definition of Farming
1. Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farming
Literary usage of Farming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Outlook 109: Ap 14 '15 Palestine farming in Palestine. EF Beaumont. 1 1 Sci Am
113:152-3 Ag 21 '15 United States Agricultural education and agricultural ..."
2. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1892)
"And this is not unlikely ; sheep farming enabled the landlord or tenant to dispense
with labour and to depopulate his farm ; for dairy farming and poultry ..."
3. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1918)
"OSTRICH farming IN SOUTH AFRICA * . IN times past the two-toed ostrich ranged
over all the habitable parts of the continent of Africa, and extended into ..."
4. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1915)
""farming is a business which requires the highest business talent; ... such skill
of a technical order to be successful, as the profession of farming. ..."
5. Report (1905)
"Specific Types of farming. Mixed farming. Grass farming. (Inventory, farm balance,
probable ... Present status of the farming Industry. The new farming. ..."
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