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homestead
1[ hohm-sted, -stid ]
noun
- a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.
- any dwelling with its land and buildings where a family makes its home.
- a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act.
- a house in an urban area acquired under a homesteading program.
verb (used with object)
- to acquire or settle on (land) as a homestead:
Pioneers homesteaded the valley.
verb (used without object)
- to acquire or settle on a homestead:
They homesteaded many years ago.
Homestead
2[ hohm-sted, -stid ]
noun
- a town in S Florida.
homestead
/ -stɪd; ˈhəʊmˌstɛd /
noun
- a house or estate and the adjoining land, buildings, etc, esp a farm
- (in the US) a house and adjoining land designated by the owner as his fixed residence and exempt under the homestead laws from seizure and forced sale for debts
- (in western Canada) a piece of land, usually 160 acres, granted to a settler by the federal government
- the owner's or manager's residence on a sheep or cattle station; in New Zealand the term includes all outbuildings
Word History and Origins
Origin of homestead1
Example Sentences
Organizations like the Cultural Burn Association have been working with landowners to set portions of farms and homesteads alight.
For over 40 years, Nancy Berry’s trailer was her mountain oasis and her family’s homestead.
Two homesteads in the town of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape were targeted, police said, with 12 women and one man killed in one location, and three women and one man at a second location.
What she did on that 160 acres of land in southeastern Colorado was similar to what was happening on farm parcels everywhere across the U.S., especially where people were homesteading under the Great Plains.
As “Don Guillermo,” he presided over his properties from the Old Adobe, his homestead near the river.
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