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

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Recent Examples of homesteaders 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 Also on Holzherr, humble homesteaders the Knoll family brace for the intrusion of Krem (Matthias Schoenaerts, with more facial piercings than Hellraiser’s Pinhead), leader of a band of interplanetary Brigands. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026 The book traces the fictitious Yeoman family’s evolution over generations from self-sufficient homesteaders to participants in global markets. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 23 June 2026
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  1. settlers
  2. pioneers
  3. colonists
Noun
  • More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023, according to Palestinian health authorities, a figure that includes those killed by Israeli settlers, while dozens of Israelis have also been killed.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The ambassador last month spoke out sharply after weeks of unrest in the town of Qusra, where settlers surrounded several homes including one owned by a Palestinian American.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of settlers
Noun
  • After all, modern hikers and campers have access to tools the pioneers could never have imagined.
    — Elaine Reno, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The marker is the first in Miami-Dade County from the Florida Civil Rights Museum as part of its heritage trail honoring Black pioneers throughout Florida.
    — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of pioneers
Noun
  • Japan regained sovereignty over the island in the 1970s, but the American military still has a heavy presence there, continuing tensions between locals and the armed colonists surrounding them.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In his telling, the Lenape agreed to sell Dutch colonists only as much land on Manhattan as could be covered by a man’s breeches.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of colonists

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