smallholding

noun

Definition of smallholdingnext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholding
  1. homestead
  2. farmhouse
  3. plantation
  4. garden
  5. manor
  6. orchard
  7. hacienda
  8. croft
Noun
  • DeSantis’ plan would force new residents to wait five years before benefitting from the higher homestead exemption.
    — Romy Ellenbogen Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The measure increases the homestead exemption from $50,000 to $150,000 in 2027 and raises it to $250,000 in 2028.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of homestead
Noun
  • The target is camped out inside a pipeline beneath a farmhouse across the battlefield.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2026
  • This had happened in the farmhouse down the hill, where Angie now lived, along with Uncle Abe and Aunt Martha and a trio of her brothers.
    — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of farmhouse
Noun
  • In the early 1800s, the region was home to Hawaii’s first commercial sugar plantation which helped launch the state’s sugar industry and bring the town of Kōloa into the spotlight.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Tourists take photos at a viewing platform overlooking coffee plantations on June 4, 2026 in Baoshan, Yunnan Province of China.
    — Matthew Tan,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of plantation
Noun
  • One evening, my husband and I waited with a few others in the garden, the air thick with lavender.
    — Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026
  • This lentil dish adds fresh garden zucchini for a cozy and satisfying meat-free meal.
    — Hannah Agran, Midwest Living, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of garden
Noun
  • Evidently, Madonna was going industrial—the furthest possible cry from her lady-of-the-manor period in the early years of this century, when she was seen fetchingly clad in rustic tweeds.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of manor
Noun
  • Aquifer levels have continued to drop as corporate farms and investors have planted vast almond and pistachio orchards.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
  • Her eldest son moved in during the pandemic and nursed the orchard’s last remaining tree back to health.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2026
Definition of orchard
Noun
  • 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
  • The hotel has 150 rooms and suites, all with plush furnishings and impressive, hacienda-style architecture.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 17 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
Definition of croft

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