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name
A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Indian Wells, Kern County, California.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Iowa County, Iowa.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Benzie County, Michigan.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sugar Island Township, Chippewa County, Michigan.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Ray County, Missouri.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in south-west Portland, Oregon.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Florence County, Wisconsin.
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name
A rural town and locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.
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noun
A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
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noun
A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States.
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Usage: Canada, US
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Synonyms: farmstead, quarter section
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Broader terms: residence, messuage
noun
The place that is one's home.
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noun
A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
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Usage: South-Africa
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noun
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
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Usage: obsolete
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verb
To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
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Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
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Usage: transitive
Qualifier: political philosophy; chiefly libertarianism; political philosophy; chiefly libertarianism
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noun
dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
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Broader terms: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
noun
land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
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Broader terms: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne
noun
the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
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Broader terms: land
verb
settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
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Broader terms: settle
History
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.
Across languages
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