Meanings
plural farm teams
- slanghobbiesA minor league baseball, ice hockey or other sports team, especially one concerned with player development.
Synonyms: farm club, feeder team, nursery club
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA minor league baseball, ice hockey or other sports team, especially one concerned with player development.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna minor-league team that is owned by a major-league team (especially in baseball)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
A reference to the fact that many minor league teams in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were in small towns in rural areas.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Danish farmerhold
- farmerholdminor league team concerned with player development
Finnish farmijoukkue
- farmijoukkueminor league team concerned with player development
Norwegian Bokmål farmerlag
- farmerlagminor league team concerned with player development
Russian фарм-клуб
- фарм-клуб (farm-klub)minor league team concerned with player development
Swedish farmarklubb, farmarlag
- farmarklubbminor league team concerned with player development
- farmarlagminor league team concerned with player development
Cite this entry
farm team. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farm%20team
“farm team.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farm%20team. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “farm team,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farm%20team.
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