- present participle of farm.
farming
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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
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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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John Deere and other manufacturers produce farming equipment throughout the Midwest, including in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born in 1946, the fourth of 12 children, into a poor farming family who lived in a one bedroom cabin in Tennessee.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Even pottery that enters the ground whole often cracks over the centuries as soil pressure, farming, construction, and other disturbances shift the earth around it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Smith's case named some of New Zealand's biggest and best-known companies, including dairy farming giant Fonterra.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Within a few years, Father failed at city blacksmithing like he’d failed at farming.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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