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farmhouse

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɑːmhaus//

A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus: A farmer's residence.

noun

  1. 1

    A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus: A farmer's residence.

    No farm-house goes on well without there is a Nis in it, and well is it for the maids and the men when they are in favour with him.

  2. 2

    A house (usually the main house) on a farm; thus: A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.

    Since the farm's redevelopment into mixed commercial and residential space, the farmhouse has served as a community center.

    The couple live in a renovated farmhouse that was once the hub of a 300-acre farm.

Etymology

From farm + house.

Forms

plural
farmhouses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).