as in pioneer
a person who settles in a new region
in the 1800s homesteaders in search of cheap land and a new life headed to the West in droves
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Recent Examples of homesteader
The first generation of homesteaders practiced full self-sufficiency out of necessity, Proctor said.
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Ree Drummond, Food Network star and famous homesteader, just dropped her biggest furniture collection to date at Walmart.
—Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Anderson believes most of Florida’s raw milk sellers are homesteaders, many of them born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were stuck at home and began turning to new practices such as baking homemade sourdough bread, growing fresh vegetables in a backyard garden, and even farming.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
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Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
As a Black homesteader myself, I've been met with resistance to farm work in my networks.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
Ree Drummond, Food Network star and famous homesteader, just dropped her biggest furniture collection to date at Walmart.
—Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
Anderson believes most of Florida’s raw milk sellers are homesteaders, many of them born out of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were stuck at home and began turning to new practices such as baking homemade sourdough bread, growing fresh vegetables in a backyard garden, and even farming.
—Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homesteader
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Additional investors include Fred Moll, the cofounder of Intuitive Surgical and pioneer of robotic surgery, who has joined the company’s strategic advisory board.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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The Mughal Empire’s hunger for land taxes, for instance, drove an assault on eastern India’s forests in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which redistributed land to pioneer cultivators willing to undertake that work of settlement.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Changing forests fueled tick risks During the 18th and 19th centuries, settlers cleared more than half the forested land across the northeastern U.S., cutting down forests for timber and to make way for farms, towns and mining operations.—
Sean Lawrence,
The Conversation,
18 June 2025
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Before European settlers arrived in California and insisted on suppressing fire at every turn, the landscape burned regularly.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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The community’s festive send-off identifies this as an important rite of passage, though the gatekeeper reminds Spike that no rescuers or search parties will be sent after colonists that fail to return.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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For most white Americans, and especially enslavers, the white colonists of Saint Domingue experiencing these changes were a focus of racial empathy.—
Time,
Time,
9 June 2025
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“Homesteader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homesteader. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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