croft

noun

Definition of croftnext
chiefly British
1
as in tract

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as in homestead

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Recent Examples of croft That simple statement sums up not only the slender margin of survival in the crofts, but also the tectonic collision between waning subsistence living on the remote western islands and the explosion of excess and spending in 1990s mainland Scotland. — Paula Cooper, CBS News, 5 May 2026 Crossing to Scotland, Lerwick adds Shetland ponies and stone crofts, Kirkwall delivers Norse-meets-Scottish history and Skara Brae-era vibes, and Edinburgh’s skyline crowns it with castle views before the elegant glide up the Thames to Greenwich. — Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared. — Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025 Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967. — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croft
  1. tract
  2. homestead
  3. clearing
  4. manor
  5. plat
  6. plantation
  7. grass
  8. smallholding
Noun
  • Harris-Dawson thinks the big increase may stem from a single census tract south of Manchester Avenue between Normandie and Van Ness avenues.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Opportunity Zones, created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and first designated in 2018, are economically distressed census tracts where taxpayers can receive preferential tax treatment by investing eligible gains through QOFs.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of tract
Noun
  • The city’s public announcement and email on the freeze did not mention the November statewide ballot referendum, which could increase the current $50,000 homestead exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.
    — Brian Bell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Alila Ventana Big Sur resort is 51 years old, while the Post Ranch Inn sits on the former homestead of the Post pioneer family who settled in the region in the 1860s.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of homestead
Noun
  • John Rave hit a tiebreaking, bases-clearing double during a seven-run eighth inning, and the Kansas City Royals rallied past the Athletics 9-7 on Wednesday night.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The noise is loud, the imitation is everywhere and the hype shows no signs of clearing.
    — Juan Carlos Santiago, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of clearing
Noun
  • Stargroves Jagger’s next home was Stargroves, an East Woodhay, Hampshire, manor that the musician bought for £55,000 ($74,200 in USD) in the 1970s.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Evidently, Madonna was going industrial—the furthest possible cry from her lady-of-the-manor period in the early years of this century, when she was seen fetchingly clad in rustic tweeds.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of manor
Noun
  • In addition to the micro-hospital, the preliminary plat would allow for two more lots — one intended for open space or storm-drain facilities and the other possibly for a future retail or restaurant development, the letter said.
    — Rose Evans July 24, Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2026
  • The Olathe City Council approved a final plat for the development Tuesday.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Definition of plat
Noun
  • In the British colonial holdings of the West Indies and American colonies, these slave-owning colonizers and plantation administrators were predominantly Protestant.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • And the Hemings family was an enslaved family, an enslaved Black family on Monticello's plantation who - which included Sally Hemings, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles.
    — Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of plantation
Noun
  • Amanda takes off and sits on the grass, afraid this will happen to her.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The playing surface, with uncut grass and sprouting weeds, is uneven and unsafe.
    — Sam Blum, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of grass
Noun
  • The concise menu – which is chalked up each day on a blackboard – uses produce from the restaurant’s nearby smallholding.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
    — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
Definition of smallholding

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“Croft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croft. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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