Other forms: farmhouses
A farmhouse is the house the farmer lives in. An old farmhouse, the farmhouse kitchen, live in a farmhouse.
It is usually the oldest building on the holding and often listed, which makes it expensive to keep and hard to change. Farmhouse as an adjective means plain and hearty — farmhouse bread, farmhouse cheddar — whether or not a farm was involved.
1nounfarmhouseThe house the farmer lives in.
“We stayed in an old stone farmhouse surrounded by fields.”
farmhouse is a house.
Farm plus house. Farm comes from Old French ferme, a fixed rent, from Latin firmus, firm — a farm was first a leased holding.
From farm + house.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA