farming

English

Etymology

From farm + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈfɐ̞ːmɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ
• Hyphenation: farm‧ing

Noun

farming (countable and uncountable, plural farmings)

1. The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc.

   Synonym: (literary) soil

   • 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 1:

     Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.

   • 1945 April 18, American Historical Association, United States Armed Forces Institute, Shall I Take Up Farming? (GI Roundtable)‎^[1], number 35, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2:

     Farming was among the earliest of civilized man's occupations, [...]

2. A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land.
   • 1692, John Quick, Synodicon in Gallia reformata:

     We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.

   • 1986, Science reports of the Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba., page 24:

     After Agricultural Foundation Law was enacted in 1961, the expansion of scale of farm business, the improvement of agricultural foundation, the spread of diversified farming with livestock, the mechanization and the rationalization of farming have accelerated viable farmings.

   • 1997, Hamlet Bareh, The History and Culture of the Khasi People, →ISBN, page 433:

     The problem has been enhanced more so because more agricultural farmings are spreading out leaving but slight margins for cattle farming and fears are expressed by farmers upon the possible cattle intrusion into the farmings ...

Derived terms

• antifarming
• aquafarming
• aura farming
• baby farming
• bee farming
• biofarming
• dairy farming
• data farming
• dirt farming
• electrofarming
• factory farming
• farming sim
• Farmington
• firestick farming
• fish farming
• gold farming
• granny farming
• hoe-farming
• intensive animal farming
• intensive farming
• landfarming
• microfarming
• mixed farming
• nonfarming
• organic farming
• profarming
• proxy farming
• refarming
• sharefarming
• skyfarming
• smart farming
• snow farming
• strip farming
• subsistence farming
• tax farming
• truck farming
• unfarming
• vertical farming
• windfarming

Translations

agriculture — see agriculture

Adjective

farming (not comparable)

1. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)Pertaining to the agricultural business.
2. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) working as a farmer, raising livestock or fish.
   • 1673, Don Francisco Baltheo de Montalvan, translated by W.H., Naked truth, or, A plain discovery of the intrigues of amorous fops and humours of several other whimsical persons: in a pleasant and profitable dialogue between a precious saint-like sister called Terpole and Mimologos, a scoffing buffoon, London, page 39:

     But the story is thus; there was a plain farming Fellow in the Country that lived near the said Brother of the Congregational way,

3. (obsolete, rare) renting the duties of one's office for a regular fixed payment

Verb

farming

1. present participle and gerund of farm

References

• “farming”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “farming, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• framing