noun / verb
homestead
HOHM-sted/ˈhəʊmsted/
A home with land for farming, or settling and farming such land.
Their homestead includes a small house, vegetable gardens, and pasture.
Etymology
Literally a family's dwelling place, a homestead came to include the land supporting that household. This broader property sense connects the house itself with the surrounding family farm.
In context
in the rolling hills of land once populated only by the seneca indians a homestead was built by ichabod town in a section of land
More examples
- They raise chickens and grow potatoes on their homestead.
- Her grandparents homesteaded land near the river.
- The family plans to homestead ten acres and grow its own food.
Forms
homestead · homesteads · homesteaded · homesteading
homesteader noun — A person who settles and farms land.
Similar words
- farm
- Emphasizes agricultural production rather than a family's settled home.
- farmstead
- Refers chiefly to a farm's house and surrounding buildings.