FARMHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farmhouse mean? 

• FARMHOUSE (noun)
  The noun FARMHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. house for a farmer and family

  Familiarity information: FARMHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARMHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

House for a farmer and family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("farmhouse" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Holonyms ("farmhouse" is a part of...):

farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)

 Context examples 

I write this whilst we wait in a farmhouse for the horses to be got ready.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So, when they came to a good-sized farmhouse, Dorothy walked boldly up to the door and knocked.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The girl was young and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farmhouse servants to be.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I told you I lost my way after passing that old farmhouse with the yew-trees, because I can never bear to ask; but I have not told you that, with my usual luck—for I never do wrong without gaining by it—I found myself in due time in the very place which I had a curiosity to see.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To be sure, it would have been more for the advantage of conversation had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as the happiest alternative, been secluded from the world, in some distant farmhouse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They gave him a tap on the head, therefore, to prevent his making too much resistance, and they then drove him off to some farmhouse or stable, where they will hold him a prisoner until the time for the fight is over.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Monkeys had set them down near a farmhouse, and the four travelers walked up to it and knocked at the door.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road—a long, agonised wailing, as if from fear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows; it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farmhouse: it is a solid, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)