Synonyms of homesteaders

homesteaders

noun

plural of homesteader

as in settlers

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• settlers
• pioneers
• colonists
• frontiersmen
• colonizers
• colonials
• explorers
• woodsmen
• pathfinders
• mountain men
• trailblazers
• bushrangers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of homesteaders

That was whittled down to one that raises the homestead threshold for the longest-residing residents, the homesteaders. — Peggy Gossett-Seidman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026

Hoping to make his way back to his brother, Håkan disembarks in California and immediately heads East, against the flow of all the homesteaders and forty-niners streaming West. — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

But the Delgado’s don’t suddenly become brilliant homesteaders, quite the opposite. — Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Disputes between the landowners and homesteaders continued for months and mostly played out in newspaper editorials, the Clio said. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 15 Aug. 2026

The group located what appeared to be some foundational stones of a building where a descendant of the homesteaders said the blacksmith shop once stood. — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 13 Aug. 2026

In the mid-19th century, a family of Dutch-Afrikaans homesteaders sets out to cross the inhospitable terrain of the Kalahari Desert along with their backer, a boorish Brit whose avarice and bigotry loom large over the journey. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald star as Charles and Caroline Ingalls, homesteaders who move their family from Wisconsin to Kansas in the Western drama series. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 July 2026

The area has a rich and compelling history, filled with legends, wars, and homesteaders long before 1939, when the land became part of the National Park Service. — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026