homestead
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
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.
Inflected forms:
form: homesteads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: homesteads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: homesteading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: homesteaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: homesteaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
pos: noun
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 […]
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.
gloss: A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
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 […]
gloss: The place that is one's home.
pos: noun
examples: Grief from yeer to yeer / Rents my poor Heart, and makes his Home-stead there:
gloss: A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
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.
gloss: To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
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.
gloss: To appropriate an unowned, scarce means, and thereby gain ownership of it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: croft
homesteading
hstead
smallholding
Derived words: Homestead Valley
seastead
shopstead
homesteader
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: чифлик
roman: čiflik
lang: Bulgarian
word: ферма
roman: ferma
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 家宅
roman: jiāzhái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 宅地
roman: zháidì
lang: Finnish
word: tila
lang: Finnish
word: maatila
lang: Finnish
word: kotitila
lang: Galician
word: casal
lang: Galician
word: casarío
lang: Galician
word: eirado
lang: Galician
word: eido
lang: Georgian
word: კარ-მიდამო
roman: ḳar-midamo
lang: German
word: Eigenheim
lang: German
word: Gehöft
lang: German
word: Siedlerhof
lang: German
word: Heimstätte
lang: German
word: Anwesen
lang: German
word: Hofstelle
lang: Greek
word: υποστατικό
roman: ypostatikó
lang: Italian
word: abitazione isolata
lang: Italian
word: casa isolata
lang: Kikuyu
word: mũciĩ
lang: Old English
word: tūn
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Heimstäd
lang: Polish
word: gospodarstwo
lang: Sanskrit
word: ओकस्
roman: okas
lang: Sicilian
word: casali
lang: Sicilian
word: casina
lang: Sicilian
word: massarìa
lang: Spanish
word: casal
lang: Spanish
word: caserío
lang: Swedish
word: gård
lang: Swedish
word: hemman