Synonyms of homesteader

homesteader

noun

as in pioneer

a person who settles in a new region

in the 1800s homesteaders in search of cheap land and a new life headed to the West in droves

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pioneer
• settler
• colonist
• frontiersman
• colonial
• colonizer
• explorer
• woodsman
• pathfinder
• mountain man
• bushranger
• trailblazer

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of homesteader

The book traces the fictitious Yeoman family’s evolution over generations from self-sufficient homesteaders to participants in global markets. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 June 2026

When cities buy water rights from rural areas and let the fields go fallow, the land does not automatically return to the shortgrass prairie encountered by 19th-century homesteaders or the Native Americans before them. — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026

Also on Holzherr, humble homesteaders the Knoll family brace for the intrusion of Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts, with more facial piercings than Hellraiser’s Pinhead), leader of a band of interplanetary Brigands. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026

Vermont has long been a haven for idealists and iconoclasts, from the Putney Perfectionists of the nineteenth century to Depression-era homesteaders like Helen and Scott Nearing to the prickly Brooklynite who became the state’s most famous senator. — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026