homesteads

noun

plural of homestead
as in farmhouses

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Recent Examples of homesteads 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homesteads
  1. plantations
  2. manors
  3. haciendas
  4. farmlands
  5. farms
Noun
  • The calls for supernatural aid often consisted of individuals’ attempts to protect themselves and strike back against slave owners under the extreme inequities and traumas of the plantations.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of plantations
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
  • 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
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
  • These networks supplied homes, fountains, baths, and farms, making dense urban life more practical.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The prevailing idea is that summer break is a holdover from days when children were needed to help out on farms in rural communities.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of farms

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