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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 establishmentplay

  Familiarity information: HOME-FARM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOME-FARM (noun)


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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