Meaning of Homestead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A number of places in the United States:
2. Former name of Indian Wells, Kern County, California.
3. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
4. A city in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
5. 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.
   Canada, US
6. A census-designated place in Iowa County, Iowa.
7. The place that is one's home.
8. A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
9. A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
   South-Africa
10. A township in Benzie County, Michigan.
11. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
    obsolete
12. An unincorporated community in Sugar Island Township, Chippewa County, Michigan.
13. A village in Ray County, Missouri.
14. A census-designated place in Catron County, New Mexico.
15. An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Oklahoma.
16. An unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon.
17. A neighbourhood in south-west Portland, Oregon.
18. A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
19. A town in Florence County, Wisconsin.
20. A rural town and locality in Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.

Equivalents

Examples

“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:”

“[…] 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.”

“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 […]”

“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 […]”

“Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:”

“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;”

“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.”

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