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means A tract of land worked to grow crops or raise animals for food and other products.

from Traces back to the Latin 'firma,' meaning a fixed payment or settlement — from 'firmus' (firm, fixed). In medieval England, land was leased under a 'firma' agreement — a fixed annual rent — and the word drifted from the contract itself to the land being worked under it. So 'farm' started life as a financial term, not an agricultural one; the fields came second, the lease came first.