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FARMHOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
House for a farmer and family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("farmhouse" is a kind of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Holonyms ("farmhouse" is a part of...):
farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)
Context examples:
For she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and just before her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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