homestead en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/ (General-American)
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
The preacher lived on his homestead two miles away and it seemed to Laura the longest drive she had ever taken, and yet it was over all too soon.
1971, Laura Ingalls Wilder, The First Four Years, page 10:[…] no sooner has a hen disburdened herself, than she rushes forth with a clamorous kind of joy, which the cock and the rest of his mistresses immediately adopt. The tumult is not confined to the family concerned, but catches from yard to yard, and spreads to every homestead within hearing, till at last the whole village is in an uproar.
1778, Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, published 1789, Letter 43 to Daines Barrington, page 242:It was an important-looking village, with a fine old church and large churchyard in the heart of it, and two or three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks, standing close upon the road […]
1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:A Yard she had with Pales enclos’d about, / Some high, some low, and a dry Ditch without. / Within this Homestead, liv’d without a Peer, / For crowing loud, the noble Chanticleer:
1700, John Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, page 225:
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(Canada, US) 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.
He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and the half-section adjoining, the homestead of a younger brother who had given up the fight, gone back to Chicago to work in a fancy bakery […]
1913, Willa Cather, chapter 2, in O Pioneers!, Part 1:
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The place that is one's home.
Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:
1649, Thomas Bancroft, “To the never-dying Memory of the Noble Lord Hastings”, in Richard Brome, editor, Lachrymæ Musarum, London, page 54:
- (South-Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
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(obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
Where then wast thou tempted, O Blessed Jesu? or whither wentest thou to meet with our great Adversary? I do not see thee led into the marketplace, or any other part of the City, or thy home-stead of Nazareth, but into the vast Wilderness, the habitation of beasts;
c. 1620s, Joseph Hall, The Contemplations upon the History of the New Testament, London, published 1661, page 30:The PETSCHENEGRANS, as they are called in the russian and polish year-books, name themselves Kangar or Kangli, and were a powerful nomadic nation, which we can trace back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural.
1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume 2, London: Longman and Rees, Book 2, Section 4, page 38:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| homesteads | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
seastead · Homestead Valley · shopstead
Hypernyms
Synonyms
Translations (69)
fr demeure (place that is one's home) · es alquería (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · nn heimstad (place that is one's home) · it abitazione isolata (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · de Zuhause (place that is one's home) · de Siedlerhof (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · cmn 家園 /家园 (place that is one's home) · ru уса́дьба (place that is one's home) · es masía (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · cmn 家宅 (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · de Eigenheim (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · pl gospodarstwo (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · hu majorság (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · fi maatila (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · cmn 宅地 (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · cy tyddyn (place that is one's home) · ast quintana (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · bg чифлик (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · hu tanya (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · fi tila (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · uk сади́ба (place that is one's home) · sa ओकस् (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · sv hemman (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · fi kotitila (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · pdt Heimstäd (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · ang tūn (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · gl eido (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · fi kotitalo (place that is one's home) · sa ओकस् (place that is one's home) · de Gehöft (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · ast caseríu (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · hu gazdaság (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · it casa isolata (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · hu otthon (place that is one's home) · fr foyer (place that is one's home) · de Wohnplatz (place that is one's home) · bg ферма (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · de Hofstelle (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · hu birtok (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · fr propriété (place that is one's home) · gl eirado (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · gl casal (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · it casolare (place that is one's home) · de Heimstätte (place that is one's home) · sv gård (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · fo heimstaður (place that is one's home) · it luogo natio (place that is one's home) · hu lakhely (place that is one's home) · de Anwesen (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · pl dom (place that is one's home) · pdt Heimstäd (place that is one's home) · ka კარ-მიდამო (place that is one's home) · hu major (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · scn casali (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · da hjemsted (place that is one's home) · de Heimstätte (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · de Wohnstatt (place that is one's home) · nb hjemsted (place that is one's home) · ka კარ-მიდამო (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · scn casina (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · el υποστατικό (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · de Wohnstätte (place that is one's home) · ki mũciĩ (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · be сядзі́ба (place that is one's home) · scn massarìa (house together with surrounding land and buildings) · ga aicíocht (place that is one's home) · hu lakóhely (place that is one's home) · fi kotipaikka (place that is one's home) · gl casarío (house together with surrounding land and buildings)