farmstead

[fahrm-sted]

noun

1. a farm together with its buildings.

farmstead

/ ˈfɑːmˌstɛd /

noun

1. a farm or the part of a farm comprising its main buildings together with adjacent grounds

Word History and Origins

Origin of farmstead¹

First recorded in 1800–10; farm + stead

Example Sentences

In the 1990s, the late Penn State archaeologist James Hatch recovered peach pits from the bottom of post holes that once housed support structures for the farmstead's house.

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Value-added or farmstead dairy operations that make and sell milk and products such as cheese straight to customers have been growing.

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Hearst, whose vibrant new cookbook "Flavors from the Farm: Vegetable-Forward Food to Share" is out now, has settled on a 60-acre farmstead upstate.

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But the crafty robbers somehow knew that the dogs couldn’t reach the part of the farmstead where they were breaking in.

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Using livestock guardian dogs to deter bears from farmsteads, however, hadn’t been rigorously tested.

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Related Words

• acreage 
• estate 
• field 
• garden 
• grassland 
• homestead 
• lawn 
• meadow 
• nursery 
• orchard 
• pasture 
• plantation 
• ranch