homestead
A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farmA house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
» Yanni was forced to abandon his homestead.
Meaning
5 sensesA house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
Eigenheim, Gehöft, Siedlerhof
A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
(Canada, US)A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.
land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
The place that is one's home.
Heimstätte, Wohnstätte, Wohnstatt
уса́дьбаusádʹba
сади́баsadýba
the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
(South Africa)A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
(obsolete)The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
Examples
7 sentencesYanni was forced to abandon his homestead.
Ziri has many ewes on his homestead.
Tom bought a remote homestead in the Scottish Highlands.
Том придбав садибу в глушині Шотландських Гір.
Ziri was on his homestead.
Mary was the matriarch of the family who lived on the homestead for five generations.
deMaria war die Matriarchin der Familie, die in fünf Generationen auf dem Gehöft lebte.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English hamstede, hemstede (attested in placenames), from Old English hāmstedeFrom Middle English hamstede, hemstede (attested in placenames), from Old English hāmstede (“homestead”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimastadi (“homestead”). By surface analysis, home + stead. Cognate with Old Frisian hāmstede, hēmstede (“homestead”), Dutch heemstede (“homestead”), German Heimstatt, Heimstätte (“homestead”), Swedish hemstad (“homestead”), Old Icelandic heimstǫð (“homestead”). Doublet of Hampstead and Hempstead.
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Forms
plural: homesteads| Singular | homestead |
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