homesteads

plural of homestead

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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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
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
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
Noun
  • Lehman estimated there are only about 10 to 15 farms operating today that have large ostrich herds, and those producers have a better understanding of the animals’ behavior and free range needs.
    Dylan Lovan, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Locals still had to do shopping in the nearby city of Uruapan, where Mayor Carlos Manzo was gunned down by a cartel operative last year, and work on their farms in the mountains.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026

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“Homesteads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homesteads. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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