Word: Homestead
How to pronounce: ˈhəʊmsted
Noun
Definitions:
1. A house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings.
Example sentences: "All spent idyllic summers visiting their widowed grandmother, Emma Darwin, at Down House, the old homestead in the Kent countryside."
2. (as provided by the federal Homestead Act of 1862) an area of public land in the West (usually 160 acres) granted to any US citizen willing to settle on and farm the land for at least five years.
Example sentences: "Under the 1868 treaty Indians were permitted to claim 160-acre homesteads on public lands."
Proper noun
Definitions:
1. An agricultural and suburban city in southeastern Florida, southwest of Miami; population 57,936 (est. 2008).
Synonyms:
country estate
manor
farmstead
estate
grange
mansion house
country seat
farm
courtyard
yard
court yard
Derivations:
homesteader
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Spanish:
German: Gehöft
French: Homestead
Italian: Homestead
Turkish: Çiftlik
