- present participle of farm.
farming
Americannoun
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the business of operating a farm.
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the practice of letting or leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of farming
Explanation
Farming is the act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing edible plants. You can also describe raising animals for milk or meat as farming. Farming is a great way to describe the lifestyle and work of people whose jobs are in the agriculture industry. People often have a romantic idea of what farming is like — roosters crowing, farmers driving tractors and milking goats — although farming can be very hard work, dependent on food prices and weather. The noun farm originally meant "a lease on farm land," and it comes from the Medieval Latin firma, "fixed payment."
Vocabulary lists containing farming
Example Sentences
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Their vision: a test kitchen of sorts that models how farming can, and should, be done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Her father, Bill Huddleston, oversaw the farming of cattle, hay, tobacco and other crops, and built the home where her mother still lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
That means a season like this one may become less of a one-off, and more of a preview of what British farming has to deal with regularly.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The researchers also compared Indigenous Peruvians with the Maya, an Indigenous population in Mexico that shares evolutionary history with Andean peoples but does not have a tradition of potato farming.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
“And I think we’d better keep this monkey business to ourselves. If word gets out, every farmer in these hills will quit farming and start hunting monkeys. We can’t have that at all.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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