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

Under the new rule, the homestead exemption for all non-school taxes will rise to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 4 Nov. 2026
Under the measure, Amendment 3, a homeowner’s tax break known as a homestead exemption would go from the current US$51,400 to $150,000 in 2027 and increase again to $250,000 in 2028.

— Abigail Hall, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of homestead

Noun

The Flax Estate and Vineyard in Sonoma County wine country, once part of Hollywood actor Fred MacMurray’s ranch, has evolved into an expanse that’s home to a vintage farmhouse, caretaker’s cottage and modern home.

— Kat Tran October 29, Sacbee.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Cowles grew up in an 18th-century farmhouse in the small town of Bethlehem.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of farmhouse

Noun

Mirvis has explained that relationships between Jewish men and women of color were relatively widespread in Jamaica and throughout the Caribbean, shaped by the power dynamics of the plantation economy.

— Zachary Kranc, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
The location was a former sugarcane plantation notorious for cruelty, and accounts of apparitions in the water are a reminder of this history.

— Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of plantation

Noun

All-inclusive meals made with organic produce grown in the garden are outstanding.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2026
The normal fall routine for many gardeners is to remove all the leaves from the garden and either bag them up or pile them at the curb for transportation to a landscape waste facility to turn them into compost.

— Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of garden

Noun

The house combines several architectural styles — Romanesque arches on the tower, Renaissance window pediments, English-manor chimneys.

— Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
After hours, Neo-Vision parks his body in the bar’s walk-in fridge and retreats to a mind palace modeled after a British country manor.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of manor

Noun

On Wednesday, some time after the military and police came to the orchard, the volunteers left the orchard entirely, Spiro said.

— Liam Scott, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Normally, the orchard's trees would be full of apples for customers to pick themselves this time of year.

— Tara Lynch, CBS News, 21 Oct. 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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