homestead

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

casolare

fattoria

masseria

podere

tenuta agricola

luogo natio

sinonimi

farmstead

farm

dwelling place

grange

home

🏠

dwelling

farmplace

settlement

town

🏙️

at home

farm-place

estate

farmhouse

house

🏠

land

property

residence

Traduzioni

Gehöft

masia

ferme

granja

Heimstätte

masía

granja

Höfe

Bauernhof

mas

caseriu

Farm

مزرعة

Hof

Eigenheim

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese antico: hamstede

Affine tedesco: Heimstatt

Affine olandese: heemstede

Affine svedese: 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.

Frasi

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

Il tentativo fallì e gli uomini si ritirarono nella fattoria di Malone.