Homestead

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land.
  • n. Law Property designated by a householder as the householder's home and protected by law from forced sale to meet debts.
  • n. Land claimed by a settler or squatter, especially under the Homestead Act.
  • n. The place where one's home is.
  • verb-intransitive. To settle and farm land, especially under the Homestead Act.
  • v. To claim and settle (land) as a homestead.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
  • n. the place that is one's home
  • n. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
  • v. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A family's dwelling-place, with the inclosure or ground immediately contiguous; an abode; a home.
  • n. In law, real property owned by the head of a family and occupied by the family as a home.
  • n. Native seat; station or place of residence.
  • n. Same as Homestead Act.
  • To acquire as one's established homestead or residence.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
  • v. settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
  • n. the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
  • n. dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
    • Verb Form
    homesteaded    homesteading    homesteads   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    demesne    land    landed estate    acres    estate   
    Cross Reference
    homestead act    homestead law    hstead   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    farmhouse    dwelling    chateau    vineyard    mansion   
     
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