Synonyms of farmednext
1
: grown, bred, or raised on a farm
… a specially filleted Grade-A piece of the best of the farmed North American channel catfish.Paul Greenberg
The breeding farms … raise the possibility that farmed birds were the source of the outbreak.Declan Butler
2
: used for farming : managed and cultivated as farmland
In contrast, the valley had been a farmed and peaceful enclave right up until the end—and therefore was uncontested land of the sort that might normally have remained clean in a war.William Langewiesche

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The titular town is a serene speck of a place in the west of Japan, near a mountain also called Nagi, a beautiful but raggedy landscape that patchworks swathes of virgin forest, farmed fields and twinkling solar panels. Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026 The temperature spikes also affected wild and farmed fish in the lake, with 3,000 fish dying at one aquaculture pond. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025 Long before Rhode Island was a state—and the idea of America even existed—the Narragansett people lived, fished, farmed, and thrived on this land. Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for farmed

Word History

First Known Use

1800, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of farmed was in 1800

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“Farmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/farmed. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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