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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
Noun
  • Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of plantations
Noun
  • Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of haciendas
Noun
  • 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
  • His largest donations come from labor unions, while Duarte pulled in her biggest checks from fellow Republican candidates, and industries groups and agricultural interests including some wineries and dairy farms.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • One specific market that relies heavily on diesel is farms and the agriculture industry.
    — Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026
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“Farmhouses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farmhouses. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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