steading

noun

Definition of steadingnext
as in homestead

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  1. homestead
  2. croft
  3. manor
  4. plantation
  5. smallholding
  6. farmhouse
  7. garden
  8. station
Noun
  • On the Eastern Plains near Manzanola, Alice Craig McDonald, 91, lives near the homestead her grandparents claimed after leaving Oklahoma by wagon in 1916 -- descendants of people born into slavery who came west looking for land of their own.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • The same caps would apply to second homes, which do not qualify for a homestead exemption.
    — Abigail Hall, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Definition of homestead
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
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
  • By the mid-nineteenth century the Hawaiian throne, and the British, were both losing power as the growing cartel of US plantation bosses aggressively sought sway.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • The resort, on the site of a onetime sugar plantation, offers old-school Caribbean luxury.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026
Definition of plantation
Noun
  • 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
Definition of smallholding
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
  • 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
  • Even now, his image is on lampposts and bus stops, in train stations and on the side of bins.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • For decades, media meant whatever television stations, newspapers, magazines, or radio producers decided to show us.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of station
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“Steading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steading. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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