[
US
/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/
]
[ UK /hˈəʊmstɛd/ ]
[ UK /hˈəʊmstɛd/ ]
NOUN
- the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
- land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
- dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
VERB
- settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
How To Use homestead In A Sentence
- No one could have asked for a better final lap over the 1. 527-mile oval at Homestead, Fla.
- But of course Buchco is hideous and wrong, we need to raise taxes and let's throw in free college tuition too tsk stk btw, neither of you seemned to be aware the mayor of Pittsburgh just announced a similar "homestead" program where Pittsburgh residents will get their tution paid in an effort to get people to move to Pittsburgh. Radio alert.
- a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. The Eagle's Heart
- What attachments to the homestead shall thus inweave themselves about the hearts of those whose interests and life are cast with it -- and still more, of those who go forth from it, by taste, inclination, or bias, into the more bustling centres of competition and trade! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- One of these was built at Edeowie, some distance from the station homestead.
- Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life.
- homesteader" (web master) could build their website. Word Around the Net
- [*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson. The Woman in White
- But my ultimate taste of weed ‘management’ was homesteading on the forested slopes of the Big Island of Hawaii.
- If at times the voice of the song is plaintive, that is no more than a reflection of broken homesteads and sweltering emigrant ships. The Irish Mind