homestead

[ hohm-sted, -stid ]

/ ˈhoʊm stɛd, -stɪd /

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noun

a dwelling with its land and buildings, occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.

any dwelling with its land and buildings where a family makes its home.

a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act.

a house in an urban area acquired under a homesteading program.

verb (used with object)

to acquire or settle on (land) as a homestead: Pioneers homesteaded the valley.

verb (used without object)

to acquire or settle on a homestead: They homesteaded many years ago.

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Origin of homestead

before 1000; Old English hāmstede (not found in ME). See home, stead

Words nearby homestead

homespun, home staging, homestall, home stand, homestay, homestead, Homestead Act, homesteader, homesteading, homestead law, home straight

Other definitions for homestead (2 of 2)

Homestead

[ hohm-sted, -stid ]

/ ˈhoʊm stɛd, -stɪd /

noun

a town in S Florida.

How to use homestead in a sentence

In fact, more than 2,000 beneficiaires have already died without receiving a homestead, the Star-Advertiser and ProPublica found.
Hawaii’s Big Fix to Its Housing Shortage for Native Hawaiians? A Casino.|by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica|December 24, 2020|ProPublica
There’s been a big problem for illegal gambling and drug trafficking already with a lot of the homesteads, and I just want to prevent any more from coming in.
Hawaii’s Big Fix to Its Housing Shortage for Native Hawaiians? A Casino.|by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica|December 24, 2020|ProPublica
That’s enough to supply less than a third of the so-called waitlisters with homesteads under the current single-family model, according to an analysis of department data by the Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.
The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job|by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica|December 19, 2020|ProPublica
As the Star-Advertiser and ProPublica reported in October, DHHL is failing to award homesteads in a timely fashion, as state law requires.
The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job|by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica|December 19, 2020|ProPublica

Usually on Thanksgiving, people drive or fly back to the old homestead to celebrate with family and friends.
Remembrance of Thanksgivings past|Valerie Blake|November 27, 2020|Washington Blade
There is an ancestral homestead, but it has a meth lab in the barn.
Book Bag: Gritty Stories From the Real Montana|Carrie La Seur|October 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Individual states—including the Republic of Texas, which had homesteads up to 320 acres—passed additional homestead acts.
A Founding Father Profit Sharing Fix for Inequality|Joseph Blasi|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Private business was precisely the new capital that needed to become the new homestead.
A Founding Father Profit Sharing Fix for Inequality|Joseph Blasi|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In The Americans, the historian Daniel Boorstin traced the madness of the farmers to the Homestead Act of 1862.
American Dreams: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather|Nathaniel Rich|February 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He also enacted the Homestead Act, which supplied aspiring settlers with a gift: 160 acres of federal land.
Off the Rails: How the Party of Lincoln Became the Party of Plutocrats|Joel Kotkin|November 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He took mental inventory of his possessions and what he could lay claim to, and he happened to think about his wife's homestead.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Syfe settled with him in cash by taking a large loan on his homestead and giving Barr the proceeds.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Barr had secured Kaden's homestead, and all this Jack Stewart knew, but had never disclosed.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
The peculiarity about a homestead is, it is protected by law from seizure by the owner's creditors.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
One of the most important questions relating to a homestead is, the meaning of the head of a family.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles

British Dictionary definitions for homestead

homestead

/ (ˈhəʊmˌstɛd, -stɪd) /

noun

a house or estate and the adjoining land, buildings, etc, esp a farm

(in the US) a house and adjoining land designated by the owner as his fixed residence and exempt under the homestead laws from seizure and forced sale for debts

(in western Canada) a piece of land, usually 160 acres, granted to a settler by the federal government

Australian and NZ the owner's or manager's residence on a sheep or cattle station; in New Zealand the term includes all outbuildings

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homestead

Origin of homestead

Words nearby homestead

Other definitions for homestead (2 of 2)

Words related to homestead

How to use homestead in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for homestead