Definition of homestead
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:a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
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Examples of homestead in a Sentence
They decided to farm the old homestead.
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During the past few weeks, Mercury has been retrograding in Virgo, highlighting the area of your chart associated with the homestead.
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Experience history: Explore homesteads with rangers at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore from 12-4 p.m. Sept 3.
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My experimental B&B—this little homestead on a farm in mid-Missouri—has won two back-to-back international interior design awards from Houzz.
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The family is white and the homestead was once a plantation.
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Poldark (PBS) The third season of this period drama follows the fifth and part of the sixth books in Winston Graham's book series and follows the impact that the French Revolution will have on lead Aidan Turner's character and his homestead.
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That high productivity also took endless, mind-numbing work: to prepare and tend the fields, keep up the homestead and defend the surpluses needed to feed everyone from one harvest to the next.
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As the family prepares to leave their rural Alaskan homestead for good to be by Ami’s side, the elements of nature continue to be a struggle in their final days at home.
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Sinker Creek was unsurveyed in 1865, which meant Joyce could not establish a formal homestead to own the land, Nettleton says.
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First Known Use of homestead
before 12th century
Other Government and Politics Terms
Definition of homestead
transitive verb
:to acquire or occupy as a homestead
intransitive verb
:to acquire or settle on land under a homestead law
Examples of homestead in a Sentence
They homesteaded the territory in the 1860s.
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His parents homesteaded and lived on a ranch raising animals, miles away from any town and living through the depression.
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The couple homesteaded in a pool house next door to Mr. Peralta’s beloved grandmother, with whom Ms. Howard immediately bonded.
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Bonine, who owned the land, divided it into 1-acre lots and offered it to African-Americans to homestead in exchange for clearing the property.
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Homestead police eventually found the then-3-year-old boy and arrested Clanetha Davis.
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Michael Edward Lowry, one of three children of Robert Lowry and the former Helen White, was born on March 8, 1939, in the tiny town of St. John in eastern Washington, where his family had homesteaded in 1882, before statehood.
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He was born in the tiny town of St. John in eastern Washington, where his family homesteaded in 1882, before statehood.
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Citizens who homestead will potentially see a small tax break (average less than $150 a year).
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There’s a lot of this weird arrogance with the homesteading stuff these days.
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First Known Use of homestead
1867
Other Government and Politics Terms
Homestead
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geographical name
Home·stead
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Definition of Homestead
city in southeastern Florida southwest of Miami population 60,512
HOMESTEAD Defined for English Language Learners
homestead
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Definition of homestead for English Language Learners
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: a house and the farmland it is on
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: a piece of government land that a person could acquire by living on it and farming it when the western part of the U.S. was being settled
HOMESTEAD Defined for Kids
Definition of homestead for Students
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:a home and the land around it
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:a piece of land gained from United States public lands by living on and farming it
Law Dictionary
homestead
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home·stead
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legal Definition of homestead
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:the home and adjoining land with any buildings that is occupied usually by a family as its principal residence
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:an estate created by law in a homestead especially for the purpose of taking advantage of a homestead exemption
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:a tract of land acquired from U.S. public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating the tract
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