homestead

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm

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

   • 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:
   • It was an important-looking village, with a fine old church and large churchyard in the heart of it, and two or three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks, standing close upon the road […]
2. 2

   The place that is one's home.

   • Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:
3. 3

   A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.

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   1. 4

      The home or seat of a family

      The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

      • He's an old man, Bandy...he homesteaded here. He lives with his grandson...he said he would like to talk to you.
   3. 6

      To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.

   4. 7

      A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

   5. 8

      A rural town and locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.

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