homestead

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A house and the land and buildings around it, especially on a farm.

   The family had lived on the same homestead for three generations.

2. 2
   verb

   To settle on a piece of land and build a home and farm on it.

   In the nineteenth century, thousands of settlers moved west to homestead the open plains.

Common collocations

• homestead law Noun + noun

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.

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