Homestead

Quick meaning: Homestead is a noun meaning A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

Meaning

A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.

More Meanings

1. The place that is one's home.
2. (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
4. (transitive, politics, philosophy, chiefly libertarianism) To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
5. (obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

Example Sentences

Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:

The preacher lived on his homestead two miles away and it seemed to Laura the longest drive she had ever taken, and yet it was over all too soon.

A Yard she had with Pales enclos’d about, / Some high, some low, and a dry Ditch without. / Within this Homestead, liv’d without a Peer, / For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer:

The PETSCHENEGRANS, as they are called in the russian and polish year-books, name themselves Kangar or Kangli, and were a powerful nomadic nation, which we can trace back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural.

Word Forms

• homesteads
• homesteading
• homesteaded

Related Words

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