Large areas of land used for growing crops or raising animals; to cultivate land or raise animals for food.
From Old French 'ferme,' meaning rent or lease, from Latin 'firma' (fixed payment). Originally referred to land leased for a fixed fee, later became the land itself.
The word 'farm' originally meant the rent you'd pay for land—'firma' is where we get 'firm' and 'firmament,' both meaning something fixed! So a farm was simply 'a piece of land with a fixed rental cost,' and the name stuck.
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