homesteads in English

noun

1

an agricultural and suburban city in southeastern Florida, southwest of Miami; population 57,936 (est. 2008).

noun

1

a house, especially a farmhouse, and outbuildings.

All spent idyllic summers visiting their widowed grandmother, Emma Darwin, at Down House, the old homestead in the Kent countryside.

2

a person's or family's residence, which comprises the land, house, and outbuildings, and in most states is exempt from forced sale for collection of debt.

Station homesteads were thus widely scattered and invariably placed alongside the most abundant and reliable water sources.

3

(as provided by the federal Homestead Act of 1862) an area of public land in the West (usually 160 acres) granted to any US citizen willing to settle on and farm the land for at least five years.

Under the 1868 treaty Indians were permitted to claim 160-acre homesteads on public lands.

4

(in southern Africa) a hut or cluster of huts occupied by one family or clan, standing alone or as part of a traditional African village.

And, likewise, tourists flying into Ondangwa and Oshakati are fascinated by the intricate patterned landscape of the traditional Owambo homesteads , for example.

Use "homesteads" in a sentence

1. Some are cousins from homesteads to the east.

2. Bendee Downs is bordered by several small homesteads,

3. It is located at 3 Ridge Road, Blithing, Kingstead Hills Homesteads

4. Historically there have been many types of Bakehouses: individual, in the backyards of homesteads; communal, …

5. The Buckboard is a distinctively American made vehicle, brought from the homesteads of Adirondack farmers and other eastern mountain regions

6. Cisterns are ideal for farms and homesteads situated on waterless land, or for areas where the natural ground water is too hard — contains too many dissolved minerals — to drink, use for washing