homestead

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Sinónimos

farmstead

farm

dwelling place

grange

home

🏠

dwelling

farmplace

settlement

town

🏙️

at home

farm-place

estate

farmhouse

house

🏠

land

property

residence

Traducións

Gehöft

masía

granja

casolare

masia

Heimstätte

ferme

Höfe

Bauernhof

mas

granja

caseriu

Farm

Hof

مزرعة

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Old English: hamstede

Relativo a alemán: Heimstatt

Relativo a neerlandés: heemstede

Relativo a sueco: 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 .