homestead

noun

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home·stead | \ ˈhōm-ˌsted

, -stid \

Definition of homestead

(Entry 1 of 3)

1a : the home and adjoining land occupied by a family

b : an ancestral home

c : house

2 : a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract

homestead

verb

home·stead | \ ˈhōm-ˌsted

homesteaded; homesteading; homesteads

Definition of homestead (Entry 2 of 3)

transitive verb

: to acquire or occupy as a homestead

intransitive verb

: to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law

Homestead

geographical name

Home·stead | \ ˈhōm-ˌsted

Definition of Homestead (Entry 3 of 3)

city in southeastern Florida southwest of Miami population 60,512

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Examples of homestead in a Sentence

Noun They decided to farm the old homestead. Verb They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Hawaiians have waited years and even decades to get a homestead and a chance to claim a piece of their native lands. — Rob Perez, ProPublica, 26 May 2021 At the head of the White Pass Trail into Canada, Skagway essentially ballooned from a family homestead into a bustling town of roughly 10,000 transient residents. — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2021 Capitol Reef National Park has nearly 20 orchards totaling dozens of acres across the Fruita historic district, a 19th-century Latter-day Saint pioneer homestead in the center of the park, the Spectrum newspaper reported. — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021 However, his lifelong dream to build a regenerative homestead for his family has flourished into an international effort to rebirth the Navajo Nation. — Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2021 The Two Step Restaurant and Cantina, opened in 2011, was built using a former homestead and barn dating to the 1850s and built for German immigrants Philipp and Carolina Braun Ruempel. — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2020 Because a homestead also burned down there, a dispute over whether the remains were Native American dragged on for more than decade, so long that the tribe eventually dropped its claim. — Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, 28 Nov. 2020 Small Barn Powered by former Top Chef contestant Angelo Sosa, this new restaurant sits in the hot spot of Old Town Temecula in a historic former homestead. — Matt Bean, Sunset Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020 Cecelia is a fugitive slave living with Samuel Fisk, a lone-wolf former soldier alongside Duncan, who has built a quiet homestead on the frontier. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb His trading post and homestead at the mouth of the river were the seed from which our great city grew. — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2021 So Rubinson led the charge to make the family homestead less dated and more comfortable with a full-on renovation. — Laura Kostelny, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2021 For properties that aren’t homesteaded — owner-occupied — the foreclosure process dramatically accelerates, from a three-year time frame to just one. — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019 Originally homesteaded as an apple orchard, the Slide Rock area of Oak Creek Canyon is one of Arizona's most popular tourist destinations. — Kimi Robinson, azcentral, 30 Dec. 2019 Her paternal grandparents homesteaded in Chickaloon in the ’40s and ’50s. — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Oct. 2019 But disabled people who are homesteaded receive an additional tax discount. — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2019 Caring for the plants, much like homesteading, comes easy for Markey, who grew up on a farm. — Author: Cheryl Upshaw, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2019 My great-great-grandfather homesteaded the place in 1907. — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2019

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