Homestead
['həʊmsted] or ['homstɛd]
Definition
(noun.) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land.
(noun.) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law.
(noun.) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family.
(verb.) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.
Checked by Carlton--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
(n.) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
(n.) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
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Examples
- As the fly passed the group which had run out from the homestead they shouted Hurrah! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- An old man came into the remoter light of the fire from the direction of the homestead. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have stood many a time and thought what a neat little homestead it would make. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was in many ways an ideal homestead, toward which the family has always felt the strongest attachment, but the association with Milan has never wholly ceased. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It has widened man’s horizon, and given him all the lands instead of only the limits of his homestead. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the cellar of the Edison homestead young Alva soon accumulated a chemical outfit, constituting the first in a long series of laboratories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Robert Jordan explained the process of homesteading. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Rosalie