farm-like

See also: farmlike

English

Adjective

farm-like (comparative more farm-like, superlative most farm-like)

1. Alternative form of farmlike.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315:

     To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.

   • 1968, Marvin Tameanko, “To Buy or to Build”, in House and Home, Toronto, Ont.: General Publishing Co. Limited, page 32, column 1:

     The backyard, of necessity, became a farm-like area full of hay, manure, and broken carriage parts.

   • 2007, Rick Thomas, South Pasadena’s Ostrich Farm (Images of America), Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:

     Edwin Cawston’s farm was not a typical farm-like environment or a traditional zoo setting, but akin to a modern-day amusement park that rivaled the top Southern California attractions of that time—Santa Catalina’s Avalon Bay, Busch Gardens, Mount Lowe Railway, Venice of America canals, and Gay’s Lion Farm in El Monte.