English Explanatory Dictionary

homestead

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
  2. A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.
  3. The place that is one's home.
  4. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
  5. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
verb
  1. To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
  2. To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
name
  1. A number of places in the United States:
  2. Former name of Indian Wells, Kern County, California.
  3. A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
  4. A census-designated place in Iowa County, Iowa.
  5. A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
  6. A township in Benzie County, Michigan.
  7. An unincorporated community in Sugar Island Township, Chippewa County, Michigan.
  8. A village in Ray County, Missouri.
  9. A census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico.
  10. An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
  11. An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
  12. A neighbourhood in south-west Portland, Oregon.

Pronunciation

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-homestead.wav

Word forms

homestead homesteads homesteading homesteaded

Etymology

From Middle English hamstede, hemstede (attested in placenames), from Old English hāmstede (“homestead”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimastadi (“homestead”). By surface analysis, home + stead. Cognate with Old Frisian hāmstede, hēmstede (“homestead”), Dutch heemstede (“homestead”), German Heimstatt, Heimstätte (“homestead”), Swedish hemstad (“homestead”), Old Icelandic heimstǫð (“homestead”). Doublet of Hampstead and Hempstead.

Synonyms

farmstead quarter section

Related words

croft homesteading hstead smallholding

Derived words

Homestead Valley seastead shopstead homesteader

Translations

Bulgarian: чифлик Bulgarian: ферма Chinese Mandarin: 家宅 Chinese Mandarin: 宅地 Finnish: tila Finnish: maatila Finnish: kotitila Galician: casal Galician: casarío Galician: eirado Galician: eido Georgian: კარ-მიდამო German: Eigenheim German: Gehöft German: Siedlerhof German: Heimstätte German: Anwesen German: Hofstelle Greek: υποστατικό Italian: abitazione isolata Italian: casa isolata Kikuyu: mũciĩ Old English: tūn Plautdietsch: Heimstäd Polish: gospodarstwo Sanskrit: ओकस् Sicilian: casali Sicilian: casina Sicilian: massarìa Spanish: casal Spanish: caserío Swedish: gård Swedish: hemman
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