Thesaurus results for SMALLHOLDING

smallholding

noun

Definition of smallholding

chiefly British

as in homestead

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Recent Examples of smallholding The concise menu – which is chalked up each day on a blackboard – uses produce from the restaurant’s nearby smallholding. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 23 Feb. 2026 Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf. — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025 Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool. — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018 Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters. — Time, 5 Apr. 2018

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Noun

Amendment 3 cuts only those taxes, imposing a $150,000 homestead tax exemption in 2027 rising to $250,000 the following year.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2026
There won’t be many ways left, once the $50,000 homestead exemption is tripled next year and raised to $250,000 in 2028.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of homestead

Noun

The residence included a four-bedroom farmhouse, a barn converted into living quarters, and a separate cottage with two additional bedrooms.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026
Birch Lane’s Reinhart cart speaks to farmhouse design, especially in this punchy shade of blue.

— Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of farmhouse

Noun

The city gives way to rolling tea plantations and narrow country roads.

— Sharon Machira, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
Its Romanesque façade was disguised as a grand Southern plantation—four towering white columns were erected to support a temporary façade with floral garlands, potted trees, and an enormous portrait of Leigh and Gable hung above the entrance.

— Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of plantation

Noun

So far, so standard espionage drama stuff — albeit executed with above-average style, from Sam and Helen’s enviable collection of fall outerwear to cool action sequences that have fun with the layout of a posh gallery or a Downton-esque manor.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
The show begins in England, where a doctor races to the English manor of the Duke (Ben Lamb) and Gladys Russell Vere.

— Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of manor

Noun

Making these chubby little Glazed Apple Fritters may be even quicker than a drive to the orchard.

— Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Nov. 2026
Mike Weststeyn, whose family owns about 700 acres of almond orchards in the Ripon area, said their work schedule is guided by daylight, not the clock.

— Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of orchard

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
Situated at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, Marilyn purchased the 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival-style hacienda for $75,000 in early 1962.

— Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of hacienda

Noun

That simple statement sums up not only the slender margin of survival in the crofts, but also the tectonic collision between waning subsistence living on the remote western islands and the explosion of excess and spending in 1990s mainland Scotland.

— Paula Cooper, CBS News, 5 May 2026
Crossing to Scotland, Lerwick adds Shetland ponies and stone crofts, Kirkwall delivers Norse-meets-Scottish history and Skara Brae-era vibes, and Edinburgh’s skyline crowns it with castle views before the elegant glide up the Thames to Greenwich.

— Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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