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HOME-FARM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does home-farm mean?
• HOME-FARM (noun)
The noun HOME-FARM has 1 sense:
1. a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment
Familiarity information: HOME-FARM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("home-farm" is a kind of...):
farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Context examples
As a magistrate, he had generally some point of law to consult John about, or, at least, some curious anecdote to give; and as a farmer, as keeping in hand the home-farm at Donwell, he had to tell what every field was to bear next year, and to give all such local information as could not fail of being interesting to a brother whose home it had equally been the longest part of his life, and whose attachments were strong.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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