homestead

CEFRC1

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A home and the land belonging to it.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The place that is one's home.

Examples

  • In 1862, Congress had passed the Homestead Act.

  • Mary was the matriarch of the family who lived on the homestead for five generations.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  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. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.

More examples

In context

  • Tom bought a remote homestead in the Scottish Highlands.

  • A Yard she had with Pales enclos’d about, / Some high, some low, and a dry Ditch without. / Within this Homestead, liv’d without a Peer, / For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer:

  • Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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.