steading

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steading
Noun
  • On nearly four acres, Villa Kuro—a 1960s ranch-style homestead cabin with two bedrooms—sits at the base of a quiet residential neighborhood in south Joshua Tree.
    Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In some versions of the tale, the wolf scurries off to the forest while the three pigs live happily ever after in humble homesteads of their choice.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.
    Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
  • Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • The storybook setting evokes the charm of a French countryside manor.
    David Caraccio Updated July 30, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2025
  • One example is a family office that transforms a historical manor into a multi-use property: part private home, part learning center, part regenerative agricultural hub.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Extensive signage explains who owned the plantation (the country’s first Hispanic Congressman, Joseph Marion Hernández) and provides background on the Seminole Indians.
    Bonnie Gross, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the misty central highlands, tea plantations ripple across undulating hillsides in neat green rows, as cool mist drifts through eucalyptus groves and over winding railway tracks that curve like silver ribbons.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
    Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Noun
  • It's believed that exposure began in the farmhouse 12 years ago, leading to a colonization of mold from inhaled spores.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Men at the farmhouse responded by blasting away with guns, expending boxes of ammunition to no effect.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Many are hoping it will be transformed back into a beer hall and restaurant similar to Mecklenburg Gardens, one of the very few German beer gardens to survive Prohibition and the anti-German sentiment during and after World War II.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Bush basil grows well in in-ground gardens, raised beds, or pots that are at least 8 to 12 inches in size.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Investigators were able to determine that in at least two of the robberies, the suspect fled to nearby BART stations and boarded trains.
    Harry Harris, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Rancho Coastal Humane Society will waive adoption fees on adult pets 6 months and older through Aug. 31 a part of the annual Clear The Shelters pet adoption and donation campaign led by NBC and Telemundo stations, which features an extended fundraising campaign through Sept. 15.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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“Steading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steading. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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