Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dwelling on a farm.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The principal dwelling-house of a farm; a house on a farm occupied by the owner or lessee of the farm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The farmer's residence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun house for a farmer and family

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

farm + house

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Examples

  • Now six weeks into renovation, the front terrace of our farmhouse is a stockyard of old doors, wooden crates, and broken concrete.

    abri - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • Now six weeks into renovation, the front terrace of our farmhouse is a stockyard of old doors, wooden crates, and broken concrete.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • Now six weeks into renovation, the front terrace of our farmhouse is a stockyard of old doors, wooden crates, and broken concrete.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • As luck would have it, Dorothy, Uncle Henry, the farmhands, and the men in gaucho costumes seek shelter in a farmhouse from a too-convenient twister, which blows them over a cliff (not over a rainbow, natch).

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  • Knight Frank The farmhouse is accessed via a short track with remote-controlled gates.

    Florence Farmhouse 2010

  • The upside about those glaring plasterboard walls, here in our unfinished farmhouse, is their potential for bringing the "big screen" home (this, with the help of a laptop and a projector).

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  • I just started the script and the farmhouse is just as I pictured it.

    First Look: Inglorious Bastards Farmhouse (Yes, a Big Deal!) | /Film 2008

  • The upside about those glaring plasterboard walls, here in our unfinished farmhouse, is their potential for bringing the "big screen" home (this, with the help of a laptop and a projector).

    tirailleur - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • The upside about those glaring plasterboard walls, here in our unfinished farmhouse, is their potential for bringing the "big screen" home (this, with the help of a laptop and a projector).

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • The upside about those glaring plasterboard walls, here in our unfinished farmhouse, is their potential for bringing the "big screen" home (this, with the help of a laptop and a projector).

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

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