homestead
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Is homestead a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.Examples: "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 […]"Synonyms: farmstead, quarter sectionCanadaUS
2. (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.South-Africa
3. (obsolete) The home or seat of a family; place of origin.Examples: "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."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive) To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.Examples: "When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded."; "He's an old man, Bandy...he homesteaded here. He lives with his grandson...he said he would like to talk to you."intransitivetransitive
2. (transitive, political philosophy, chiefly libertarianism) To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary