homestead

n. house and property (especially a farm); section of land claimed by a settler (especially under the U.S. Homestead Act)

Homestead may refer to: Property-relatedHomestead (buildings), a smallholding farm with a farmer's residenceHomestead (area), an area measure of 160 acres (650,000 m²) also called a quarter-sectionHomestead (small African settlement), a cluster of several single-family houses in southern AfricaHomestead Act, an 1862 United States Federal law that gave away millions of acres to farmersHomestead exemption, a legal regime to protect the value of a residence from expenses arising from the death of a spouseHomestead principle, a legal concept that one can establish ownership of previously unowned property through useHomesteading, a lifestyle of agrarian self-sufficiency
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Noun
1. the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family
(hypernym) land
2. land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law
(hypernym) estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne
3. dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land
(hypernym) dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
Verb
1. settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead
(hypernym) settle

(n.)
The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.
  

(n.)
The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
  

(n.)
The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.
  

Synonyms and related words:
ancestral halls, arable land, barnyard, barton, cattle ranch, chicken farm, chimney corner, collective farm, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, dry farm, dude ranch, estate, factory farm, fallow, family homestead, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fireplace, fireside, foyer, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homecroft, homefarm, house and grounds, house and lot, household, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, kibbutz, kolkhoz, location, mains, manor farm, menage, messuage, orchard, pasture, paternal roof, pen, place, plantation, poultry farm, ranch, rancheria, rancho, roof, rooftree, sheep farm, station, steading, stock farm, toft, truck farm