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home·stead

(hōm′stĕd′)

1. A house, especially a farmhouse, with adjoining buildings and land.

2. Law Property qualifying as a person's home under certain laws, such as laws providing tax abatements and exemptions, survivorship rights for spouse and children, and immunity from claims of creditors.

3. Land claimed by a settler or squatter, especially under the Homestead Act.

4. The place where one's home is.

v. home·stead·ed, home·stead·ing, home·steads

v.intr.

To settle and farm land, especially under the Homestead Act.

v.tr.

To claim and settle (land) as a homestead.

home′stead′er n.

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homestead

(ˈhəʊmˌstɛd; -stɪd)

1. (Agriculture) a house or estate and the adjoining land, buildings, etc, esp a farm

2. (Law) (in the US) a house and adjoining land designated by the owner as his fixed residence and exempt under the homestead laws from seizure and forced sale for debts

3. (Law) (in western Canada) a piece of land, usually 160 acres, granted to a settler by the federal government

4. (Agriculture) Austral and NZ the owner's or manager's residence on a sheep or cattle station; in New Zealand the term includes all outbuildings

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home•stead

(ˈhoʊm stɛd, -stɪd)

n., v. -stead•ed, -stead•ing. n.

1. a dwelling with its land and buildings occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure or sale for debt.

2. any dwelling with its land and buildings where a family makes its home.

3. a tract of land acquired under the Homestead Act.

v.t.

4. to acquire or settle on (land) as a homestead.

v.i.

5. to acquire or settle on a homestead.

[before 1000]

home′stead`er, n.

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Noun	1.	homestead - the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family land - the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
	2.	homestead - land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law acres, demesne, landed estate, estate, land - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
	3.	homestead - dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"
Verb	1.	homestead - settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead settle - form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"

Translations

البَيْت العائِلي

statek

bondegård

Eigenheim Heimstätte

ferme

tanya

bústaîur, bÿli; bóndabær

fattoria

gazdovstvo

malikâne

家园家宅

homestead

[ˈhəʊmsted] N (esp US) → casa f, caserío m; (= farm) → granja f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

homestead

[ˈhəʊmstɛd] n (= house) → propriété f (= farm) → ferme fhome straight home stretch n

[race] → dernière ligne f droite
to be in the home straight → être dans la dernière ligne droite

(fig) → dernière ligne f droite
to be in the home straight → être dans la dernière ligne droitehome team n (SPORT) → équipe f qui reçoithome town n
my home town (place of birth) → ma ville natale; (where I grew up) → la ville où j'ai grandi; (where I now live) → la ville où je résidehome truth n
to tell sb some home truths → dire ses quatre vérités à qn
I'll tell him a few home truths → Je vais lui dire ses quatre vérités.home video n → vidéo f amateurhome visit n (by doctor) → visite f à domicile

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

homestead

[ˈhəʊmˌstɛd] n → casa colonica

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

home

(həum) noun

1. the house, town, country etc where a person etc usually lives. I work in London but my home is in Bournemouth; When I retire, I'll make my home in Bournemouth; Africa is the home of the lion; We'll have to find a home for the kitten.

2. the place from which a person, thing etc comes originally. America is the home of jazz.

3. a place where children without parents, old people, people who are ill etc live and are looked after. an old folk's home; a nursing home.

4. a place where people stay while they are working. a nurses' home.

5. a house. Crumpy Construction build fine homes for fine people; He invited me round to his home.

adjective

1. of a person's home or family. home comforts.

2. of the country etc where a person lives. home produce.

3. (in football) playing or played on a team's own ground. the home team; a home game.

adverb

1. to a person's home. I'm going home now; Hallo – I'm home!

2. completely; to the place, position etc a thing is intended to be. He drove the nail home; Few of his punches went home; These photographs of the war brought home to me the suffering of the soldiers.

ˈhomeless noun plural, adjective

(people) without a place to live in. This charity was set up to help the homeless; homeless people.

ˈhomely adjective

1. simple but pleasant. homely food.

2. making a person feel he is at home. a homely atmosphere.

3. (American) (of a person) not attractive; ugly.

ˈhomeliness noun

ˈhoming adjective

1. (of pigeons etc) which (can) fly home when set free a long way from home.

2. able to take a missile etc to its target. These torpedoes have homing devices in their noses.

ˈhome-coming noun

1. the return home of a person (who has been away for some time). We had a party to celebrate his home-coming.

2. (American) an annual event held by a college, a university or high school for former students.

ˌhome-ˈgrown adjective

grown in one's own garden or in one's own country. These tomatoes are home-grown.

ˈhomeland noun

a person's native land. Immigrants often weep for their homeland.

ˌhome-ˈmade adjective

made by a person at home; not professionally made. home-made jam; home-made furniture.

home rule

the government of a country or part of a country by its own citizens.

ˈhomesick adjective

missing one's home. When the boy first went to boarding-school he was very homesick.

ˈhomesickness noun

ˈhomestead (-sted) noun

a house, especially a farm, with the land and other buildings (eg barns) which belong to it, especially in the United States, Australia etc.

home truth

a plain statement of something which is unpleasant but true (about a person, his behaviour etc) said directly to the person. It's time someone told him a few home truths.

ˈhomeward adjective

going home. his homeward journey.

ˈhomeward(s) adverb

towards home. his journey homeward; He journeyed homewards.

ˈhomework noun

work or study done at home, especially by a school pupil. Finish your homework!

at home

1. in one's home. I'm afraid he's not at home.

2. (in football etc) in one's own ground. The team is playing at home today.

be/feel at home

to feel as relaxed as one does in one's own home or in a place or situation one knows well. I always feel at home in France; He's quite at home with cows – he used to live on a farm.

home in on

to move towards (a target etc). The missile is designed to home in on aircraft.

leave home

1. to leave one's house. I usually leave home at 7.30 a.m.

2. to leave one's home to go and live somewhere else. He left home at the age of fifteen to get a job in Australia.

make oneself at home

to make oneself as comfortable and relaxed as one would at home. Make yourself at home!

nothing to write home about

not very good. The concert was nothing to write home about.

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There were twenty-two members belonging to the homestead: four married sons, six grandchildren (one of whom, Petrushka, was married), two great-grandchildren, three orphans, and four daughters-in-law with their babies.

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So she came to many-fountained Ida, the mother of wild creatures and went straight to the homestead across the mountains.

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There were flowers about him--sweet old-fashioned flowers which his mother had planted in the homestead garden in her bridal days and for which Matthew had always had a secret, wordless love.

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"Mount Holly," the beautiful old Gordon homestead, was a very gay place, overrun by Phil's friends of both sexes.

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(and simultaneously) by the belligerent forces, and a sanguinary struggle had occurred in the immediate vicinity of the Lassiter homestead. But of this the young trooper was not aware.

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More than once I have tried to picture myself in the position of a boy or man with an honoured and distinguished ancestry which I could trace back through a period of hundreds of years, and who had not only inherited a name, but fortune and a proud family homestead; and yet I have sometimes had the feeling that if I had inherited these, and had been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself.

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The homestead consisted of a threshing floor, outhouses, stables, a bathhouse, a lodge, and a large brick house with semicircular facade still in course of construction.

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The new residents were in the garden, taking as much interest in their own doings as if the homestead had never passed its primal time in conjunction with the histories of others, beside which the histories of these were but as a tale told by an idiot.

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The labor of the Waziri and the gold of Opar had rebuilt and refurnished the wasted homestead of the Greystokes.

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Long life was before all the others who trysted that night in the old homestead orchard; but Cecily's maiden feet were never to leave the golden road.

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Nancy had never "worked out" before; but a sick mother suddenly widowed and left with three younger children besides Nancy herself, had forced the girl into doing something toward their support, and she had been so pleased when she found a place in the kitchen of the great house on the hill--Nancy had come from "The Corners," six miles away, and she knew Miss Polly Harrington only as the mistress of the old Harrington homestead, and one of the wealthiest residents of the town.

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Matthew Maule, on the other hand, though an obscure man, was stubborn in the defence of what he considered his right; and, for several years, he succeeded in protecting the acre or two of earth which, with his own toil, he had hewn out of the primeval forest, to be his garden ground and homestead. No written record of this dispute is known to be in existence.