farming

1. 1.

   relating to farming or agriculture

   “an agrarian (or agricultural) society”

   “farming communities”

   Synonymsagrarianagricultural

   Similarrural

Other forms of farming

plural

farmings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about farming

What does farming mean?

farming means "the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in farming?

farming has 2 syllables: far-ming. The stress falls on "far". In IPA it is /ˈfɑɹmɪŋ/.

What is another word for farming?

Close synonyms include agriculture, husbandry, land, agrarian, agricultural. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is farming a common word?

farming is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.