"farming" meaning in English

See farming in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/ [General-American], /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-farming.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ Etymology: farm + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|farm|ing}} farm + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} farming (not comparable)
  1. Pertaining to the agricultural business. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-farming-en-adj-TKJrdiym
  2. Raising livestock or fish. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-farming-en-adj-lutdGuXR

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/ [General-American], /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-farming.ogg [US] Forms: farmings [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ Etymology: farm + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|farm|ing}} farm + -ing Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} farming (countable and uncountable, plural farmings)
  1. The business of cultivating land, raising stock, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-farming-en-noun-zuYELdMD
  2. A farming operation; a farm, or instance of farming on a piece of land. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-farming-en-noun-bbGKDAJz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/ [General-American], /ˈfɑːmɪŋ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-farming.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪŋ Etymology: farm + -ing Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|farm|ing}} farm + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} farming
  1. present participle and gerund of farm Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: farm Categories (topical): Agriculture
    Sense id: en-farming-en-verb-AXivkxzf Disambiguation of Agriculture: 12 18 13 7 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 20 17 5 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 4 28 12 8 47 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing: 5 27 16 5 47

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/En-us-farming.ogg/En-us-farming.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/En-us-farming.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "farming"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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