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Homestead
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- 1 A number of places in the United States:; Former name of Indian Wells, Kern County, California.
- 2 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Iowa County, Iowa.
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; A township in Benzie County, Michigan.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sugar Island Township, Chippewa County, Michigan.
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; A village in Ray County, Missouri.
- 8 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico.
- 9 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
- 10 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
- 11 A number of places in the United States:; A neighbourhood in south-west Portland, Oregon.
- 12 A number of places in the United States:; A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
- 13 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Florence County, Wisconsin.
- 14 A rural town and locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.
- 1 A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
"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:"
- 2 dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land wordnet
- 3 A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.; 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. Canada, US
"He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery […]"
- 4 land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law wordnet
- 5 The place that is one's home.
"Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:"
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- 6 the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family wordnet
- 7 A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family. South-Africa
- 8 The home or seat of a family; place of origin. obsolete
"Where then wast thou tempted, O Blessed Jesu? or whither wentest thou to meet with our great Adversary? I do not see thee led into the marketplace, or any other part of the City, or thy home-stead of Nazareth, but into the vast Wilderness, the habitation of beasts;"
- 1 To acquire or settle on land as a homestead. intransitive, transitive
"When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded."
- 2 settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead wordnet
- 3 To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it. transitive
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.
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.
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