HOMESTEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does homestead mean? 

• HOMESTEAD (noun)
  The noun HOMESTEAD has 3 senses:

1. the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family

2. land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

3. dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land

  Familiarity information: HOMESTEAD used as a noun is uncommon.

• HOMESTEAD (verb)
  The verb HOMESTEAD has 1 sense:

1. settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead

  Familiarity information: HOMESTEAD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMESTEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("homestead" is a kind of...):

land (the land on which real estate is located)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("homestead" is a kind of...):

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate (extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use)

Derivation:

homestead (settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("homestead" is a kind of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

• HOMESTEAD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "homestead" is one way to...):

settle (form a community)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)

homesteader (someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it)

 Context examples 

I have stood many a time and thought what a neat little homestead it would make.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Good heavens!” I cried. “Who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Say rather ten acres and a homestead on the banks of Avon.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was indeed a stricken and a blighted country, and a man might have ridden from Auvergne in the north to the marches of Foix, nor ever seen a smiling village or a thriving homestead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So for two days they pushed their way through the wild places of Navarre, past Fuente, over the rapid Ega, through Estella, until upon a winter's evening the mountains fell away from in front of them, and they saw the broad blue Ebro curving betwixt its double line of homesteads and of villages.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)