farmhouses

noun

plural of farmhouse
as in homesteads

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  1. homesteads
  2. manors
  3. plantations
  4. haciendas
  5. farmlands
  6. farms
Noun
  • Florida’s property tax system already shifts billions in property taxes from homesteads to non-homestead property.
    — Jeff Kottkamp, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2026
Definition of homesteads
Noun
  • For a honeymoon, Ireland offers everything from castle estates and countryside manors to dramatic coastlines and quiet villages.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
Definition of manors
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  • The largest fire has been reported in the village of Sungai Gelam in the Muaro Jambi district, where dozens of hectares of oil palm plantations owned by local residents have been destroyed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The largest fire has been reported in the village of Sungai Gelam in the Muaro Jambi district, where dozens of acres of palm oil plantations owned by local residents have been destroyed.
    — Trisnadi, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of plantations
Noun
  • The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
    — Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 6 Dec. 2025
Definition of haciendas
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  • At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
Definition of farmlands
Noun
  • In Salisbury, which has become a hub for Haitians who work in nearby factories and farms, ICE recently started detaining people in parking lots and other areas immigrants frequent, according to Fouché of Safe Harbor Circles.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Chow looked everywhere—community centers, food kitchens, thrift stores, and strawberry farms—but struggled to get anyone’s attention.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of farms
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