homestead
To acquire or settle on land as a homesteadTo acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
» Yanni was forced to abandon his homestead.
Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(intransitive, transitive)To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
(transitive)To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
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. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
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. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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
homesteads, homesteading, homesteaded, homesteaded| Base form | homestead · to homestead |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | homesteads |
| Present participle | homesteading |
| Past simple | homesteaded |
| Past participle | homesteaded |
regular · Lesson
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle