homestead

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

farmstead

farm

dwelling place

grange

home

🏠

dwelling

farmplace

settlement

town

🏙️

at home

farm-place

estate

farmhouse

house

🏠

land

property

residence

Translations

Gehöft

Bauernhof

Höfe

ferme

granja

masía

casolare

Farm

Eigenheim

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/

Etymology

Inherited from Old English: hamstede

Cognate with German: Heimstatt

Cognate with Dutch: heemstede

Cognate with Swedish: 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.

Sentences

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