homestead

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
2. (Canada, US) A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
3. The place that is one's home.
4. (South-Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
5. (obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
2. (transitive) To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.

Conceptes

granja

mas

masia

caseriu

casa pairal

Sinònims

farmstead

farm

dwelling place

grange

home

🏠

dwelling

farmplace

settlement

town

🏙️

at home

farm-place

estate

farmhouse

house

🏠

land

property

residence

Traduccions

Gehöft

Bauernhof

ferme

casolare

masía

Höfe

granja

Heimstätte

Farm

-e

Eigenheim

Gehöft -s

Bauernhof -s

-höfe

مزرعة

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès antic: hamstede

Cognat amb alemany: Heimstatt

Cognat amb neerlandès: heemstede

Cognat amb suec: hemstad

In summary

From Middle English hamstede, hemstede (attested in placenames), from Old English hāmstede (“homestead”), from Proto-West Germanic *haimastadi (“homestead”). By surface analysis, home + stead. Cognate with Old Frisian hāmstede, hēmstede (“homestead”), Dutch heemstede (“homestead”), German Heimstatt, Heimstätte (“homestead”), Swedish hemstad (“homestead”), Old Icelandic heimstǫð (“homestead”). Doublet of Hampstead and Hempstead.

Frases

The attempt failed and the men retired to the Malone homestead .